1-2-3 Birds & Berries – #15
The birds have been busy devouring the winter wild berries the past couple months!
Just before the recent snow/ice storm, I braked on a remote road heading home when I saw a flock of birds in the berry-filled tree tops alongside the road.
One of the species were Cedar Waxwings!
Putting my car flashers on, I did the best I could from my car window on the constant-moving flock.
There were over 100 Cedar Waxwings, what a treat!
Another species flocking the berries were European Starlings. My focus was all about the waxwings, so I didn’t worry about capturing the starlings. Then one starling popped in front of me nicely; and what a treat, he’s the next post Berry Series star!
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Bay Photos by Donna 
More fabulous photos Donna
Thank you, Sheree!
Wow! What a nice photo-op surprise to enjoy just before the storm!
Something about those waxwings! 😉 Thanks, Barbara!
What a treat!
I love finding surprise treats! Thanks, Kathy!
I never get a decent shot of them 😆, you certainly did.
Thank you, Ted!
Such lovely coloring.
It was a cloudy day but I thought too the coloring turned out pretty!
Lovely photos – the color mix is wonderful.
Thank you, Sam! It was a cloudy day but the lighting was still impressive!
These are wonderful photos, Donna! And seeing so many waxwings at one time, amazing 😊
Thank you, Belinda! I have been spoiled this past year with their presence. 😊
What a great find for you and the Waxwings! The images are lovely. My favorite is the first one. I’m looking forward to seeing your Starlings too.
Thank you, Deborah! Good thing I could brake and shoot so easily! 😉
One of my favorite birds, such beauties. Great shots, Donna!
Thank you, Eliza! They’re in my top fave bird list too!
You do have a LARGE bumper sticker that warns drivers and everyone that YOU BRAKE FOR BIRDS! Right? 😂
I do need one of those! 🤣
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Great photos. Waxwings look so well turned out always
Thank you, IJ!
Awesome 👍👍👍
Thank you, Michael!
You’re welcome, Donna.
How lucky to get these waxwings and 100 at least. They were enjoying those berries and the captures show that so well as well as their fine colours. Lovely!
Thank you, Sandy!
What a coincidence! We just went through that “bird-braking” exercise yesterday – also for Cedar Waxwings! They were mixed in with American Robins having a berry feast as they fuel up for northward migration.
Beautiful photographs of the sleek beauties!
Thank you, Wally! Something about those waxwings do cause braking! 😁
We don’t seem to have had any waxwing visitors in our area this year.
Well, that’s not right. Hmmmm……
No, it was disappointing.
I’ve never seen a Cedar Waxwing in person – they sure are distinctive looking. I wonder if they eat the berries frozen or wait until the sun warms/defrosts them?
I’d think they’d eat the berries no matter frozen or thawed. They will even eat fermented berries and get drunk! 😂
That is interesting and I have seen photos of squirrels eating fermented berries. Years ago at the park where I walk they had a few small apple trees along the shoreline. The squirrels knocked the apples out of the trees, onto the ground, took a single bite, then left them. The birds would peck on them, but it was the wasps that really discovered the apples rotting in the sun and glommed onto them and then were flying erratically … vertically, not horizontally.
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Great photos. There was something about the last one that I particularly liked.
Thank you, Curt!
How amazing to see so many waxwings, Donna!
A birder’s delight for sure!
Wow, that is a big flock of Waxers…at least for us. I find them an excellent choice to test the upper registers of my hearing – if I can still hear their calls I know I haven’t lost everything (yet) from those booming speakers when I was young.
Thank you, brakes went on this time for them! I have them year-round in my yard, sometimes 100+ eating our crepe myrtle and other wild berries surrounding our property. People in my bird club are jealous, everyone loves a waxwing!