Thursday 22nd January

18+ Waxwings in the oak tree south of Garner Drive, East Malling at 08:50 this morning with a few dropping down to feed on berries next to the footpath. This is a residential area so please respect residents privacy. At 08:55 they suddenly took flight, for no apparentreason, and flew south. I found them a couple of minutes later in theorchard at the back of East Malling church but they almost immediatelytook flight north again (presumably back to Garner Drive!). So they're still around but very flighty between these two locations! Managed a snap from the car window of 13 of the birds in one of the trees in the orchard as I drove into work.

Another look for Waxwings at 12:30 turned up 5 in the large trees at the eastern perimeter of the churchyard. They appeared to have discovered the large bunches of mistletoe and fed contently for 40 minutes or so.