Today Rob Cross Steve Spry and myself decided to try and track down some of the Waxwings that are being reported over Devon. We decided to head towards Brixham as a few days earlier 20 had been reported from there. If we had time Dawlish Warren would be worth a try as Waxwing had also been reported there along with a Black-necked Grebe. As we were driving across the county I checked Birdguides and noticed Waxwings had already been reported that morning in the car park of Torbay hospital. This was only a half mile detour for us so we headed straight there. As we turned into the car park I spotted the flock at the top of a tree only to see them fly away before we had even stopped. We waited patiently for an hour with none of the birds returning before we decided to carry on to Brixham. 

When we finally arrived at Brixham we decided to photograph Cirl buntings, which Rob and I had seen here last winter. It started Ok for all of us as we quickly found the birds and managed some shots, although most of them were with the birds on the ground rather than nice perched shots. Unfortunately for Steve, sleeping beauty from my post on  "a weekend of mixed fortunes" found his legs were getting tired and he decided to kneel down, although It was a fairly cold morning I thought kneeling in a pile of Dog sh**t was an extreme way of warming your legs! Still it gave us a laugh.

We spent quite a few hours at Berry head and saw a few nice birds including Fieldfare, Redwing, Jay and Peregrine. We kept checking for Waxwing reports but it just wasn't to be our day. We ran out of time before we could visit Dawlish Warren for the Grebe, although to be honest I dont think it came very close today as I have seen no decent photographs of it appear since ChrisWilsons shot on the various local websites today.