Christine's walking & birds blog

Greger was not only in the air early this morning - he actually landed! As we drove away from a fairly quiet Heathrow, he wondered what all the fuss had been about. Ah well, he didn't see us at our worst, as it's now thawing. We had minus eight at home, I told him.

It was minus twenty-five in Sweden when he left; but that's quite unusual for the Stockholm area, at least for any length of time. They are also experiencing exceptionally cold weather this winter.

But the invasion of waxwings in Britain is probably more to do with the poor berry crop in Scandinavia - the result of a very hot, dry summer.