A large influx of waxwing arrived in Fakenham last year and completely stripped the chinaberry trees in the B&Q carpark. They perch high up on neighbouring conifers then swoop down in packs to greedily eat all the berries. These are winter visitors from Scandinavia and sometimes as far as Siberia who are escaping much harsher conditions
Despite being in a safe locatin these cubs were only seen during daylight hours on two occasions. They very soon followed the regime of coming out at night. Badgers have poor vision but super-sensitive smell and acute hearing - so they are easily put off
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