Waxring

We at last caught up with a Waxwing the other day. Not a host of them but an unusually single individual; a loner picking berries from a couple of bushes in the car park of a medical centre in Aylesham. I did hear another but couldn’t locate it. Unusually the bird was colour ringed. The first colour ringed Waxwing I have seen. Details were sent to the ringers. It was ringed as a first winter male on Great Southern Road in Aberdeen on the 28^th December last year. It was last seen on the 23^rd January on Scotstown Road, Bridge of Don in Aberdeen among a flock of 80 birds feeding on Ornamental Rowans. He’s supposed to be heading north in spring. I wonder where he thinks he’s going!