The highlight of my day today? Seeing birds I’ve never seen before, and knowing exactly what they were when I zoomed in with my camera. Now these shots are horrible, but I consider I was excited, they are sorta on the small side and they were perched high in the poplar tree out back. These are a loving pair of Cedar Waxwings - both male and female flirted together at the top of this tree while I stood watching, amazed that we even have them around here.
Two separate photos, merged together and tweaked for sharpness, shadows and color. Really - you have to see them in person to appreciate how sleek they appear. Makes me want to go plant a mulberry bush right next to the Grand Central Feeding Station!
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A huge flock of Waxwings visit us every spring–they LOVE our loquat tree, and tend to get a bit tipsy on the overripe fruit at the top.
This year, the flock was so huge and thick, and I think the fruit a lot overripe, they kept flying into the windows–BAM! BAM!–and would bounce off and fly back to the tree to eat more LOL It was crazy!
I got some pictures and video, kept meaning to post them. Your photo is lovely of course :)
Awesome. Lucky, you know how to identify birds. I have, another, seagull posted today. I see mostly seagulls, crows and ducks around here. But, I hear a lot of other birds singing. Thought I was gonna lose my mind early sunday morning. All I heard was a high chirp, chirp, chirp chiiirrrpppp.
Wonderful photo! I love waxwings! They don’t come here very often, in fact I’ve only seen them one year, but that year there were loads of them, and they are wonderful birds as they flutter together in a mass of red and yellow shimmers. Ours are a different species to yours I think.
Leanne, this is the first time I’ve seen the Grand Central Feeding Station (love that name), and I saved the pic to show my hub. What a great idea! I don’t know how I missed the original post but I really liked the design.
I’ve never seen a waxwing before, and that pic was really pretty. I especially liked the way you merged the top left photo so that the branch blurs out softly and merges with the right pic.
gorgeous!