AN INFREQUENT visitor to these shores is sitting pretty in a Kendal garden after flying over from winter chillier winter climes in a bid to find food.
This waxwing has been a frequent visitor to an Oxenholme garden, where it feasts on berries, and was caught on camera.
The waxwing does not breed in the UK but arrives in the country during the winter months, when their food supplies in their breeding grounds in forests in Russia and Eastern Europe run short.
David Hirst of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said that waxwings were unusual visitors to South Lakeland and this year there had been fewer of the birds spotted in the UK.
"They are a great bird to see in your garden. They are not used to seeing people in their breeding grounds so they are quite tame and approachable and like to feed on berries.
"They are scarce but not rare in this country," he said.
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