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Cedar Waxwings here! (Original Post)
elleng
Jan 2024
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niyad
(120,936 posts)1. Amazing! Thank you!
MontanaMama
(24,100 posts)2. It's that time of year!
Im waiting to see this winters little clown birds come through and gorge themselves on Mountain Ash berries.
AllaN01Bear
(23,479 posts)3. i saw a museum of ceder waxwings outside my
apartmennt complex eating pyracantha berries getting ruddy drunk once . how dry i am i thought they were a eastern bird , but i guess not. i live in central ca.
cachukis
(2,780 posts)4. Must have some berries about.
elleng
(137,118 posts)5. LOTS of cedar/juniper trees.
cachukis
(2,780 posts)6. They are voracious. The blueberry farmers here
have fired cannons. Actually loudspeaker cannons. They have tried netting. I had 60 bushes and had to pick each morning to get the ripe berries. Otherwise the waxwings were on them.
Pretty birds though.
Florida.
Here's a museum, enjoying berries @ riverside, tree's FULL of them: