New Years day and those Waxwings again

After much more lashing of rain, the sun puts in an appearance at last hurrah. Our normal New Years day birding trip has been cancelled due to most places being flooded out. We decide to go over to Dinton Pastures where we know we can walk relatively dryly, however the wellies are packed and a good job to as a fair amount of wading was called for.

We had a good walk but far too many people about for my liking. Children screaming and dogs jumping in the lake to "fetch" sticks. Sometimes the noise was deafening as mothers shrieked loudly after over exited children, and hungover fathers trailed rather greenly behind.
We meet up with one of our birding friends and following his advice we go to the Jubilee river to see if we can spot the elusive Waxwing. Now the parking is going to be tricky, but lucky me got a space straight away. Just a couple of hundred yards down the path the little beauties were sitting proudly in a tree just feet from the path. Mr F managed to get a few cracking photo's before they flew off.

We got a good few ticks on our list today and had 2 good walks into the bargain. Great start to 2013.