Ed puts on a brave face for his third pine grosbeak dip, we arrived 20 minutes too late for the morning showing and the bird remained out of sight for the rest of the day.Ed, Kirsty and I headed north to Vaggeryd (Småland) hoping to twitch a female pine grosbeak, but it was not to be. We left kind of late and it cost us the bird unfortunately. Arriving at 1050 we were greeted with the news that the bird had been missing for 20 minutes. We never re-located it. Plenty of fruiting rowans here though so we stuck it out until 1500. Some great birds in the neighbourhood though including redwing (10), long-tailed tit (10), brambling (10), redpoll (2) and bullfinch (15). Best of all though was my first waxwings of the season, with a flock of 8 briefly and then 25 flying over later.
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