Foot It -update 8th Jan

Waxwing - there's no mistaking this silouette

With an update from Clive Ashton that the Waxwing were still present at the Enthoven Plant in Darley Bridge yesterday I set off at 7am for what is about a half hour walk from home. Arriving in the dark there was little to see but I could hear a fairly constant stream of Pied Wagtails leaving their roost at the plant. An hour later and still no sign I had to leave but just as I was passing the line of lorries queing to enter the plant I caught the distinctive call and saw 9 birds sat in the top of a Poplar by the site entrance. Species number 70 for my Foot It list. 
A pair of Gooseander on the Whitworth pond but still no Kinfisher.