Cedar waxwings entertain while harvesting mulberry crop ...

An earful of cedar waxwings flock around a birdbath in Kyle, Texas, on Feb. 14, 2025. (Courtesy Steve Snyder) Cedar waxwing at Lake Creek Trail in northwest Austin, Texas, on Jan. 13, 2025.

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 ...

Cedar waxwings have bright yellow tips to their ... I write this column from a park where a hundred-strong flock of waxwings is seething in the tree above my head. Seething is the word I mean ...

To spot a cedar waxwing, look for a flock. Social birds, waxwings are often in a crowd of five to 50, with groups swelling in the winter, up to 200. You can find them throughout the year in the ...

Cedar waxwings pillage fruit and berries ... training my gaze on a single waxwing within the flock. He was perched near a thick bunch of berries that were mounded like grapes at an emperor ...

What a joy it was to have a flock of 100 in our yard. We are hardly alone; flocks are present across the state. We have two waxwings in Maine: the cedar waxwing that nests here and the bohemian ...

The beautiful bird, so named because of the bright red and yellow waxy secretions that decorate the tips of their wings, was embedded with a flock of its cousins, cedar waxwings, which are much ...

“A flock of cedar waxwings can strip the fruits from a nandina bush in minutes, but as the fruits are digested, they slowly release cyanide in quantities that overwhelm the birds’ ability to ...