SIR – Those people who have never seen a waxwing won’t know looking at the picture of them perched on a tree branch in Thornton, in the T&A (April 24) that this winter visitant has a brownish grey plumage, black crested head and throat, wings with white and yellow markings and tail feathers tipped with vermilion, because it was in black and white.

These beautiful song birds should have been shown in colour.

D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford

EDITOR’S NOTE: The initial letter we published about waxwings (T&A, April 20) was accompanied by this colour picture.