Monday, February 8, 2010

The Waxwings have arrived!!


What crashed through our yard today with more commotion and noise than New Orleans' Bourbon street after the Super Bowl? Was louder? possibly more drunk? left a bigger mess? and was decorated with Mardi Gras mask and colors?!? It was the handsome and very social Cedar Waxwing! Within half-an-hour, they stripped our berry-laden yaupon (leaving quite a mess of dark splats all over the biketrail!) with much chatter and congeniality, even happily sharing with the (equally messy) robins that appeared with them. It's a great sign of springtime soon to come!!

1 comment:

indianspringsguy said...

Some years I see them, some not. Never have had a chance to photograph them though. They would be outside at the break of dawn and by the time I can get the camera, they are always gone.