Are they migrating or do they winter in your area. Also what are they eating?

I just took this photo after a day full of grey skies and rain. It started to clear up at sunset, of course, and made a gorgeous sky.

What characters they are! I have a mulberry tree in my back yard down in Texas and they are all over that tree. I have to put an old shower curtain down on my cooking table outside or it will be covered with their purple droppings but what a conversation they have as they work the tree. Love how they swoop in and out in unison.

Thanks for the nice pics! Right now I have ravens and crows hitting my suet feeders here in Santa Fe. They also are quite the characters.

Hi all, Hey SP! Hope it is all good out there!

Fantastic Cedar Waxwing photos! They will pass berries to each other. And even have gotten intoxicated due to fermented ones too. Toyon are a great wildlife food plant. Pyracantha is good but perhaps a non-native introduced species. Cottoneaster (sp.?) is also good for them and other frugivores. They are quite irruptive, chasing food sources all winter. I have not yet seen one this winter, but did have about 40 Robin in the yard today. Another irruptive frugivore. Our Hackberry crop is zip this year, and Junipers not much better, so we won't see much of them this winter.

Only the adults show the red waxy tips of the secondaries. If they don't have that, they were born this year and a 'first-winter' bird. A few months old and in its first winter. If they have it, they are at least a year old. The Bohemian Waxwing of the north is cosmopolitan. But many birders consider the holy grail waxwing the most range-restricted, and most beautiful, with a RED tail tip, the Japanese Waxwing, an endemic there. This pic below is an adult Cedar Waxwing.

Thanks for the great waxwings!

Your photos are so fanciful, thank you.

It’s nice to be back.

I had a very special time overseas with my daughter and 20 month-year-old granddaughter. The joyful and fun loving nature of a toddler is beyond compare. It seems like every moment of their day is full of exhuberant life. It was very refreshing to get a good dose of it!

Unfortunately, two days after arriving home I came down with a flu I hope I never have to experience again. One week later I am just beginning to have a hint of normal.

I wish all well in health and good cheer.