Hit & miss day but ended well

Up with Pete this weekend.  The forecast was for cold, but wall-to-wall sunshine.  We couldn't make up our minds on several options as to what to do, but given the good forecast we went to Hyde Park to look for birds and hopefully Little Owls.

We got there... it was very dull, . the sun was nowhere to be seen, then it started to rain .. hey ho... decided to call it a day and headed back after a visit to a couple of camera shots.

Pete was surfing on his phone (in this event I was tooooo critical) - and discovered there were Waxwings not far from where we had parked the car when we left on the train.

So the day got better as I managed to get some record shots of said Waxwings (hadn't got the dSLR so used the bridge camera - hence records shots only) ..

so all's well that ends well...

Waxwings - at last!

Right.. where to today? Pete had identified 3 possible locations for Waxwings.  We left in dull, dull weather and the skies remained... dull and grey - and yes, off for a 'twitch' :D

After not too much trying, there!! where?!! up in that tree!.   And so there were - about 20 or more of the little beauties. Where?  On the road into Foxton in Cambridgeshire. The light was dire, but the cameras came out.  The waxwings were mostly in the tree but occasionally came down to eat of the berries and back again into the tree.

After we drove off we headed to Foxton - a very pretty thatched-cottage village and saw another two groups - about 10 ish in total - so we reckoned about 40 in today for the day... woo hoo.

Mostly records shots but by the end of the day the skies had cleared somewhat and, after lunch and a walk around Anglesey Abbey we came back and re-discovered them.

And at Anglesey Abbey so much winter colour and the scent from the ~Christmas Box was intense and delightful.

The first snowdrops this year.. in a couple of weeks' time, there will be many many more so I think I return visit is on the cards :D

A good day out and finally we got a bit of sunshine!