There are still a remarkable number of waxwings about. These pink birds with a little crest have usually gone back to Scandinavia or beyond by the end of March, but there are many flocks of 20 or 30 birds still around. A flock of 69 was seen this week in Gaminglay, Cambridgeshire, sitting in a false acacia tree and coming down on to a garage roof to drink. It has been an extraordinary winter for them, and numerous passers-by have seen them in supermarket car-parks feeding on berries in the ornamental cotoneaster bushes. There was even a flock feeding for a while in a little cherry tree in Clerkenwell Square, London. When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. They have a thin, trilling song. Large irruptions of them such as we have had this winter are very occasional events, and there is no knowing when we shall see so many again.