Waxwings 2022/23

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Certainly plausible. Might be because I'm looking out the window more than prev years.....but there are definitely more redwings about at this stage than normal Octobers and in the last few days, a lot of blackbirds appear to have also arrived in the garden......probably almost as soon as I typed in another post agreeing with how few there are in UK this year!

I've seen tweets from Scandinavia Robbo about the movements there heading our way due to lack of food.

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One here about Redwings
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From seven days ago

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Looking at the hawthorns, mountain ash and whitebeam in my locality they could struggle with a lack of berries in the UK.

Historically.

Place where I used to live had a healthy couple of mountain ash (one named type, one wild sown, quite probably by a bird) in the garden. One year whilst living there there was a major waxwing irruption. The local blackbird (who was jealously guarding the berries) became visibly upset when the flock of waxwings stripped the berries in 30 minutes.

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Maybe I might actually see one

Cin J

With the incredible heat we had in this country putting all our fruiting trees under stress causing the berries to ripen earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened in Northern Europe.

If that is the case, there may be an eruption heading this way and we could be in for a treat! However, a lot of the berries I've seen have already started to over ripen so they won't be around much longer. Let's hope they find enough food!