Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) - Familly "Bombycillidae" (21/02/2009) Outside a house in Worthing on a twitch. It is the only member in the UK of Bombycillidae. Nothing else quite like it. We get influxes of them in winter - some years massive ones, some years hardly any. Males and females alike apart from males have a darker and more extensive chin patch and more intense red wing tips than females. But not easy to tell unless they are next to one another.
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) - Familly "Bombycillidae" (21/02/2009) Outside a house in Worthing on a twitch.
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) - Familly "Bombycillidae" (01/01/2009) Outside someone's house, Hove, near Brighton, on a twitch! Some years you get what they call influxes of these birds, all after their favourite - Rowan berries. So get some Rowan in your garden if you have one, and you may get lucky one year!
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) - Familly "Bombycillidae" (01/01/2009) Outside someone's house, Hove, near Brighton, on a twitch!
