Waiting to meet my sister at Heslington Sports Village car park, to go birding up in Wykeham, I noticed a bird atop a small tree that I thought surely must be a Waxwing. I reached for my bins (always keep them handy), assuming it would just be a Starling, Chaffinch, or similar, but to my delight it was a Waxwing. It flew down towards me into a bush on the edge of the car park and started eyeing up the rosehips, about the only fruit left around these parts. There were plenty of Waxwings around before Christmas, but they've mostly spread south and west so this is the first one I've seen in York this year, so a little unexpected.
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