The Waxwings Came to Town

I woke up this morning to pouring rain and did not think I would be taking photos. I walked the dogs and the weather was a little brighter. I looked on the Two Owls website and saw some Waxwings were about 20 miles away and decided to go see if I could find them. They are winter migrants and not that common. I picked Karen up and we drove down the motorway . We arrived at the location and couldn't see any sign of them , although we met several others looking for them. We walked around the housing estate they were supposed to be frequenting for about 90 minutes . Most of the other seekers had given up and gone elsewhere and we decided our luck was out. As we walked back to the car , the one other remaining watcher saw us and said look up in the tree. But for him we would have missed them. At the time we counted 17 but looking at the photos we think there were at least 20. The photos are not the best , they had chosen the tallest tree in the vicinity to perch. But we were happy, I had never seen them before. After about 10 minutes they flew off and although we went back to the berries we had seen we did not see them again.