March 29: Cedar waxwings
Mar. 29th, 2011 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentThe cedar waxwings are back! Well, some of them may have never left since last fall, but mostly I think they winter farther south, and just come through here twice a year on their way somewhere else. They're certainly massed, anyway. I know because they spent the morning dropping things on my car. :) Like this feather! Among other things.
Watching them from my car, I got a good view of their stunning yellow-tipped tails. The red spot on their wings looks like a bit of shiny wax, sure, but so does the tail look like the end was dipped in shiny yellow wax. I love their high, thin whistles too. It's a little bit sad, the sound, but looking at a flock of waxwings, they don't look sad at all.
Watching them from my car, I got a good view of their stunning yellow-tipped tails. The red spot on their wings looks like a bit of shiny wax, sure, but so does the tail look like the end was dipped in shiny yellow wax. I love their high, thin whistles too. It's a little bit sad, the sound, but looking at a flock of waxwings, they don't look sad at all.