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A lone Bohemian waxwing, traveling with a flock of cedar waxwings in Knoxville’s Sequoyah Hills Park on Nov. 22, was the first ever documented in Tennessee.
FORT SILL, Okla., March 31, 2016 -- I listened for about 20 minutes to the high-pitched whistles of a flock of cedar waxwings outside the Tribune window the other day, and wondered what kept them ...
• Cedar waxwings are highly social, traveling in flocks of two dozen or more. • They primarily eat fruits but will also eat insects. • Members of a feeding flock will frequently pass berries ...
I also love cedar waxwings because they are easy to identify by their looks, their distinctive quiet, warbling whistle and the way they flock up after breeding season.
Sitting on a wire, neatly in a row, passing a berry up and down the line until someone finally eats it. That's how a playful flock of cedar waxwings may spend some leisure time. Of course if they ...
Cedar waxwings won’t take conventional feeder fare such as seed and suet, ... If a flock drops in for short visit, enjoy the visitors while you can. They won’t stay long.
Cedar waxwings are so familial that when a bird-watcher has to report just one, they might feel a bit chagrined — as if surely, they must have missed the rest of the flock on the other side of ...
Every time I think they will not return to the yard again this spring, I hear that thin, high, clear, ever-so-slightly trilled “sree.” It makes me think of a dog’s soft whine.Then I begin to look in ...
Cedar waxwings are relatively tame birds, especially during winter when they are hungry. As I approached the feeding flock, they paid me no mind, a photographer's dream come true.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- In July, beat the heat and take a very early morning walk on the Cowiche Canyon Trail to see these waxwings and other “frugivores” (fruit eaters) such as American robin ...
At this time of year, one of the most common birds in the field at my house is the Cedar Waxwing (Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren). Although considered a songbird, they are one of the few ...