STUNNING images show a large flock of Waxwings visiting Worcester.
The pictures photographer Roger Mason took shows the birds eating berries in Silverdale Avenue and flying away.
He said: "Waxwings this morning in Silverdale Avenue, when they flew off, I took a shot of a group and counted 88 birds, and that probably wasn't all of them."
The birds live in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe but often visit the UK in winter.
This year, a particularly high number of waxwings have made the journey and so far been spotted in Malvern.
The RSPB website reads: "The Waxwing is a plump bird, which is slightly smaller than a Starling.
"It has a prominent crest (head feathers that stick up).
"It's reddish-brown with a black throat, a small black mask around its eye, yellow and white in the wings and a yellow-tipped tail.
"It does not breed in the UK but is a winter visitor.
"In some years, we see larger numbers of visiting Waxwings, called irruptions, when the population in their breeding grounds gets too big for the food available."
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