Once thought to have presaged the First World War, these exquisite European songbirds are a blessing to our shores, says Mark Cocker.
As I stood this Christmas watching one of the largest flocks of Bohemian waxwings ever recorded in Derbyshire, I overheard someone say: ‘They are amazing. I wonder if I will ever see something like this again?’ I understood exactly what they meant.
The birds can sit for long minutes in treetops, where they seem stolid, silent and no…
