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Last week I wrote a short post about a visit I made to New York’s Central Park with Corey, in which I referred to a close encounter with a small flock of one of my favourite birds: Cedar Waxwings Bombycilla cedrorum. To save myself a little time (a two-year-old is demanding my attention) I’m going [...]

Early April in the northern hemisphere (or more specifically, April in Central Park) is never quite as you imagine it. It’s neither as warm as you were sure it was going to be, nor as bright. Plants emerge more tentatively than you remember, the breeze is more cutting, the light is just a little flatter. [...]

Last year Mike wrote a superb and typically lyrical post asking “What is a Waxwing?“. I’m not going to even attempt to better his phrasing by covering the same ground he went over so eloquently - if you haven’t read his post yet click the link you’ve just hurried past immediately - but I do [...]