Cedar Waxwings picking over the same patch of dried berries that the Robins found appealing in yesterdays post. We only see the Waxwings for a week each year and only in the fall. This year they were right on schedule and arrived sometime during the last week of November and had departed by last weekends walk through the woods.
nature has no boss 
So pretty!
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They are very beautiful birds. Wishing you a very happy new year.
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You captured the elegance of what I think is one of America’s most beautiful birds, Mike. We don’t often see the lemon belly so easily, and of course the eye glint is wonderful. You made the best of that one week.
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Thanks Jet, they are beautiful birds and they sure can down the berries. Wishing you a wonderful 2020.
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Love the amber eye in the second image, great capture!
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HI Eliza, it was nice to be able to get close enough to capture that amber in the eyes. From a distance the eyes look very dark. Wishing you a great 2020.
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These are the prettiest birds! So dapper. Like dancers at an elegant party in the 1920’s!
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They are indeed dapper and graceful birds. Wishing you a wonderful 2020.
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Amazing shots. Funny coincidence this as I saw my first ever waxwing here in the UK today. It was quite a privilege with even very committed birders considering themselves extremely lucky.
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HI and that must have been an exciting citing indeed. Do waxwings reside in the UK year round or are they migrants or just occasional visitors to your part of the country?
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They are irruptive visitors to the UK when the competition for food gets too wide in their Scandinavian breeding grounds. It’s hard to predict where they will show up and when so it was quite a privilege.
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Nothing like a wonderful surprise and seeing a lifer sure can’t be beat. Happy 2020 to you.
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Great captures of these beauties. We had the same experience with them when we lived in Connecticut when you might be lucky enough to see them strip a tree of its dried fruit. And then they were gone.
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Hi Ellen, yeah…those birds can polish off a berry bush like nobody’s business. They are very beautiful birds and fun to observe. Wishing you a wonderful new year.
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Thanks for the good wishes and the same for you two as well! May there be many peaceful moments in nature for us all.
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Thanks Ellen and peaceful is what the world needs these days.
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I had these beautiful birds in my trees when I lived in Texas. Moved to Louisiana and haven’t seen them. But I have some great pictures like yours to remember them by. Enjoy!
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HI, we usually see more of these birds in the winter than in summer around here. Maybe they will make there way back to you some day. Wishing you a wonderful new year.
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