Cedar Waxwings Spotted in Midway Hollow

Posted on January 12th, 2009 10:18am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Nature, Sports

Thanks to the recent cold front, my yard is rocking with Goldfinches and Cedar Waxwings. Aren’t they gay?

Update: I use this with a doubler. (Hi, B&H!)

26 comments

  1. I’ve spotted cedar waxwings and goldfinches, as well as chickadees house finches. The goldfinches are wonderful. I was lying in a hammock and one perched about three feet away, just sitting there. Beautiful bird. I also saw a ruby crowned kinglet over on the Dixon Branch in Old Lake Highlands.

    @ 10:25 am on January 12, 2009

  2. Please tell what zoom lens you use to get these great bird pictures!

    @ 10:30 am on January 12, 2009

  3. Strange how you never see just 1 cedar waxwing. Really one of the coolest birds to travel thru the area.

    @ 10:35 am on January 12, 2009

  4. How can you tell just by the photo? Bird gaydar?

    @ 10:38 am on January 12, 2009

  5. I see that they like to eat fruit. What kind of fruit could I put out to attract them?

    @ 10:45 am on January 12, 2009

  6. @ AS
    I use this with a doubler.

    @ 10:47 am on January 12, 2009

  7. http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Using-the-Word-%22Gay%22-Inappropriately

    @ 10:49 am on January 12, 2009

  8. I use this lens with a doubler.

    @ 10:49 am on January 12, 2009

  9. There was a time in my life when I could say gay and it meant happy and full of life. That is the way I feel when I see these birds.

    @ 10:53 am on January 12, 2009

  10. From Google: Deinition of gay
    brave: brightly colored and showy; “girls decked out in brave new dresses”; “brave banners flying”; “`braw’ is a Scottish word”; “a dress a bit too gay for her years”; “birds with gay plumage”

    @ 10:54 am on January 12, 2009

  11. OOPS! Definition not Deinition, multitasking is hard.

    @ 10:56 am on January 12, 2009

  12. either way, it works for me.

    @ 10:57 am on January 12, 2009

  13. Oh, sorry. My bad. Apologies all the way around.

    @ 10:59 am on January 12, 2009

  14. Sorry, Nancy. I was just funnin’ with ya. Those are some nice looking birds and a great photo of them!

    @ 11:08 am on January 12, 2009

  15. Julie I am by no means an expert but at my office on Preston they eat the holly berries. They also love the berries on cedars hence the name Cedar Waxwings.

    @ 11:09 am on January 12, 2009

  16. Not the least bit offended!

    @ 11:09 am on January 12, 2009

  17. My last post about waxwings, interesting article.

    http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2007/nov/scout1/

    @ 11:15 am on January 12, 2009

  18. I don’t know anything about the sexual orientation of cedar waxwings, but when they descended on the bush in our back yard and cleaned out the red berries, they seemed to be having a high old time.

    @ 11:44 am on January 12, 2009

  19. Yes, they get “drunk” on the berries. Close your curtains or they will fly into them and die. Seriously.

    @ 11:53 am on January 12, 2009

  20. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain.

    @ 12:52 pm on January 12, 2009

  21. That’s a little too “The Birds” for me…but I do have those little berries in my bushes out front, I was going home to see if they are still covered…I am wondering now if I should make my own recession cocktail out of them!

    @ 12:54 pm on January 12, 2009

  22. @ Nancy – seen any Purple Martins yet? We had a pair scoping out our gourds last weekend.

    @ 2:14 pm on January 12, 2009

  23. saw one in East Texas but not Dallas

    @ 2:53 pm on January 12, 2009

  24. For the record, Cedar Waxwings do not taste good.

    @ 3:42 pm on January 12, 2009

  25. @Grunt: That’s obvious, they eat Yaupon Holly berries. Not your best tasting berry, you know.

    @ 4:00 pm on January 12, 2009

  26. Can I get an owl for a pet?
    And do you think it would get along with my cats (they are old but frisky)?

    @ 9:45 pm on January 13, 2009