I drove into work via Mayne Avenue, St Albans, at 08:30 this morning. TheWaxwings were again present and behaving in a more ‘typical’ Waxwing-like manner. 22 were perched in one tree beside Mayne Avenue, making quiet trilling calls. I checked through the flock, but could see no rings on any of the birds that showed their legs. After a while the trilling calls became more insistent (louder?) then half the flock circled over the houses to land in a small tree on the north side of Glevum Close where the other 11 birds joned them shortly. From this perch the birds flew across the road in ones and twos, to a berry-bearing tree (identified as a Sorbus, by Alan Gardiner in an earlier email to HertsBirding). I could happily have spent all morning watching the Waxwings, but when I left to continue on my way towork all the birds were in Glevum Crescent. Some were perched in the tree on the north-side of the street while others fed on the Sorbus berries (fruit?)There was a regular movement to and from the two trees .I have driven home via Mayne Avenue each evening (at about 16:30) since first seeing the Waxwings on Monday (31/01/2005), but have not seen them on eitheroccasion.
