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13Mar2006

Cedar Waxwing

DateMonday, March 13, 2006 at 01:31PM

There are a few advantages to living in Texas.  One is a plentiful supply of fresh peaches in the summertime, all summer long.  The other is that the migratory flying things (birds and butterflies) all  travel through here in the spring and fall.  After having lived in the Northeast for many years, I always enjoyed the songbirds that nested there.  It wasn't until I moved to Texas, however that I found out that they travel in huge flocks to those nesting areas where I had observed them in pairs and  singles.  Cedar waxwings are a bit different as they will remain in flocks although I'm not sure that they will stay hundreds strong throughout the season.

Today is Cedar Waxwing day.  Right now there are hundreds in the trees around my house,  They are transient: we won't see them again until next year, like the robins that came last month en masse .  But for the present, they are gorging on yaupon and possumhaw berries that are eschewed by the year-round population of scrub jays and cardinals and mockingbirds.

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