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Old March 28, 2016   #1
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Default Cedar Waxwing Bird

There are a lot of these birds feeding on our Ivy berries today. I would guess around 50 of them. I tried taking pictures but my camera needs to be closer than they want me to get. Here's the link to the picture

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Old March 28, 2016   #2
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Very nice catch of the Waxwing.
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Gorgeous. I never saw one before.
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It was my first time to see that many. Now there's purple poop on stuff under the trees. Yuck
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Most winters we have Cedar Waxwings feeding but this winter none showed up. We missed seeing them.
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Saw my first waxwing about 3 years ago. I have a service berry tree near the road and they come by in the summer to eat the ripened berries, only time I ever see them. once the berries are gone so are they.
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Old March 29, 2016   #7
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The birds ate all the berries yesterday, and there are no waxwing birds here today. A one day event.
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The waxwings were thinking the same thing about the berries.

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I just read their habits and they sound like the Mongolian Hordes.

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Mischievous birds, 'camp robbers' is the general group term here. I think they're all in the jay family. We get Gray Jays and Magpies a lot.
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We used to see them when we lived on the coast. They would eat a ton of berries and apparently get 'drunk' and kamakazi into windows. Beautiful birds though.
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send them up time for them to come and nest in the northern Boreal forests. Pretty birds. they make a lovely soft 'whistling' song. Not in the corvid family like jays etc. They are in the songbird (Passerine) group of birds.
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I caught and banded a few in Houston when I mist netted birds for Harris county. This was about the time of year they and many other migrants would pass through. They are a very pretty bird.
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And I was thinking they were in the jay family, thank you.
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