Sunday 8 February 2015

Waxwings & White-fronted Goose for 2 ticks

A trip to Ipswich to look for Waxwings, it's a slow drive with a lot of speed restrictions due to road works.
Cedarwood school in Kesgrave is the reported area to start looking, 2 hours & many drives round the local roads later we are about to give it up when the pager tells us that they have been located 2 miles away in a mistletoe tree along Colchester road Ipswich.
As soon as we park up we are onto 6 birds in said tree outside number 250.
Just a little group gather to get some photos of these great birds but they would not play ball & they stay on the dull side of the tree for most of the time,on the odd occasion that they came round the sunny side the cameras go into overdrive.
On the way home we pop into Abberton & pick up another year tick when we see 4 White-fronted Geese, we have missed out on these a couple of times so nice to get them today.

My best effort

The other side of the tree.


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