This week I watched a large flock of Cedar Waxwing foraging for food, primarily berries and flying insects. Waxwings are nomads constantly moving from area to area in search of food. You seldom see only a single waxwing. They travel in flocks.
A teacher once described the arrival of a flock of waxwing at a tree in her schoolyard: on Monday there were none. On Tuesday, the flock arrived and ate all the berries growing on the bottom of the tree. On Wednesday, they ate the berries in the middle and on Thursday they finished the berries at the top. On Friday they were gone and haven’t returned.
To me a Cedar Waxwing is an elegant, sophisticated looking bird with subtle coloring tastefully accented with waxy yellow trim. I never know when to expect them and always smile when they show up.
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