After a brief thaw yesterday, the cold weather continues with a vengeance today and -3C and a thick frost again this morning. Unusual winter visitors are getting more and more media prominence and a Siberian Chiffchaff hit the headlines when it dropped in at a nature reserve in Stoke Newington, Hackney. Sounds odd, but it's an oasis in that part of London apparently. The bird at least had the good sense to settle at a supervised reserve, so he'll be better protected from twitchers than the poor Snowy Owl in Cornwall.
The RSPB have made news out of the cold snap, getting some coverage on GMTV about rare visitors with pictures of Waxwings as the headline. The Waxwings have certainly had plenty of coverage on hoslist. No doubt you have to be very lucky to see these things.......or start twitching.
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