This young Waxwing has quite a back story. It was initially ringed as a first winter male in Aberdeen on 27th November 2010 by the Grampian Ringing Group. It was then refound and photographed by Chris Beach in Welwyn Garden City, 667 KM south south-east of Aberdeen on 10th January 2011. Relocated again in Cambridge by Christoph Zockler on March 20th, it was with a flock of forty birds in Eachard Road, CB3 and had moved back 50 km north north-east of Welwyn. No doubt it is part of the movement of Waxwings now rapidly moving north spurred on by the recent warm weather. J.L.
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