~~Cedar Waxwings~~

Monday of this past week around 3:45 pm , I 'm on a phone call standing sort of looking out the window ....when out of nowhere "a swoop of birds" descended and landed in the middle of the rose garden ...to my self I think "holy crap"those where waxwings...(me calmly)  "Oh my, could you hang on for a few minutes" ...camera and crawling on my hands and knees across my bedroom floor I slowly pop up like a "submarines periscope"...most flew , but some remained ,and I clicked for all it was worth while some stayed ...back to the phone .."Hi I'm back"...what was we talking about ..lol!!
If you follow my blog you may remember at Christmas I had used the Red Winter Berry branches in my outside arrangement and said that the birds would feed of them during the winter this is one of those times!!

This is a container with one of those arrangement .....I  brought it in back and sat it in the

rose garden and they found it .. : }

He has a berry in his mouth here ..unfortunately it was cloudy and late day so more than half the

shots didn't come out well...I was able to lighten a few ..I think I need Photo shop???

 I wish I had been able to get  the red "wax droplets"color on the back edge of the wings!!

 

"Hey" I was happy to get these, and was able to enter a count of

22 Cedar Waxwings to ebird!!

On Tuesday again late day I was doing a few things outside and I heard them singing away !

I went for the camera and started looking around !

They was about 10 of them sitting in a apple tree near by !!

I just started walking toward them and clicking just encase they flew, and I got fairly close before they

spooked and where of !

 

With these I had a problem with them being in bright late afternoon

sun, as you can see above!!

"Hey" I was just glad to see them again!!

The best way to tell the Cedar from the Bohemian is the under tail

which you can see here is white and the Bohemian is a rusty orange like color!

I believe the Bohemian is larger?

 

I think he is thinging "time to take flight"!!