Wildlife Wednesday Episode 158

[Music] [Music] good morning everybody or good afternoon or evening or whatever it might be in your part of the world but here we are in January 2024 it's hard to believe it's almost the end of January already already so just in case I didn't already do this happy New Year yeah 2024 I wonder what this year holds anyway this is going to be a short Wildlife Wednesday and by the way I apologize for doing the intro from inside the house this week because uh I'm kind of stuck indoors at the moment I'm only getting out occasionally because I've have a little bit of a nerve problem that's causing me me problems when I walk but anyway that's another story for another day I won't bore you with that so why am I dealing a wildlife Wednesday this week well there's been an influx of wax wings in Ireland over the last couple of weeks and unfortunately because of the fact that I'm stuck indoors I'm not getting out to see them they're an absolutely beautiful bir that come to us during the winter from Scandinavia now they don't come every year but they're fairly regular visitors I think the last time they were here was maybe five or six years seven years ago I'm not quite sure must check that actually but they do come to Ireland when the berries run out in their Homeland now they're basically Scandinavian birds and I'm going to read this time from a little bit of boardwatch irelands information to make sure that I don't get things wrong when Berry supplies in their usual wintering countries are exhausted prematurely something which can often happen during good waxwing breeding season these birds will travel South in search of food and that's what's happened over the last couple of weeks but unfortunately as I said I haven't been able to get out and about and see them but I know some friends have seen them they've been well photographed they've been well well documented in newspapers and magazines so there are quite a few of them around funny enough few years ago and one of those famous waxwing Winters if you like to call them that there was a tree down the end of the road here and a a fair flock of them I can't remember exactly how many I think about 30 of them came in and they stayed for about a week it was great I got some terrific shots at the time I I also remember oh I think it was back around 2012 2013 when they uh spent a lot of time out in fingas I remember and I got quite a few shots there but more recently again I remember them being in luuk and I was reminded of this yesterday by a friend who was out lucky enough to be out photographing while I was sitting here at home anyway so for this week just to give you an idea of just how beautiful these Brees are I'm going to give you look at some photos that I took over a couple of periods not sure 2013 26 17 whatever it doesn't matter just that you see the beauty of these birds let's have a look at the [Music] slideshow [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] he [Music] thanks for watching Wildlife Wednesday folks I hope you've enjoyed this episode if you did please give it a like And subscribe to the channel if you're so inclined for now take care stay safe and I'll see you soon