Cedar Waxwing eating apple flower pedals...

Konrad___far_north

17 years ago

Today out in the orchard....

Konrad

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bbcathy
17 years ago
Gorgeous pic as usual. I have seen Orioles eating flowers too.
hawkeye_wx
17 years ago
Great photos. They are beautiful birds. A week ago I saw my first two waxwings ever in my backyard.
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Sorry to post so late to this topic. I just found this place and created an ID just to answer this LOL. It is definately a mullberry tree. I am assuming the berries are white and look a little like strawberries? I have one and I get tons os Cedar Waxwings as well as Baltimoe Orioles and Robins. They eat the fruit until it is completely gone. The Mullberry tree is considered a weed to most but I love my tree. It is right near my porch and I spend a couple of hours every day watching the birds enjoying the fruit. The only downfall is that the berries fall off the tree and can make a mess. To me it is worth the inconvenience though. Mullberry is a favorite for many birds and if you have one in your yard the birds will be there from morning to night.
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I have another wren in the barn and I will be sad if I see a pile of russet feathers. They forage around too low and aren't afraid. My cats live in the barn. My two crab apples have very small fruit like a berry. They have no disease problems and bloom reliably but briefly in spring. The apples are not the colorful attractive ones that are bigger, but they are a good size for birds. I saw two bluebirds in one of them yesterday also. These trees were planted years ago. They are white with pink buds, very small fruit and were sold as disease resistant. If you are getting one for birds, check that it has fruit that persists into winter and small fruit. I will look in my file and see if I can find the name because my trees have been trouble free for thirty years.
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Cedar Waxwings are timing with their nestlings on the oncoming of their favored berries to feed their young, not sure what that would be in your area, find out and then go with this plant. Cedars just about eating anything when it comes to berries, just make sure this fruit is ripening at the time of hatchlings. Here it's the native Saskatoon's, Cedar's should just about now build their nest here. As for Winter food, they like chokecherries, crab apples and some mountain ash.
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rachel_frome_ky
17 years ago
Konrad, gorgeous photos! I've also seen them doing that, but never photographed it
prairie_love
17 years ago
Beautiful pictures. I really love the one with three in a row.
bluebirdbabe
17 years ago
Those r some of the most breath taking photo's I have seen!! just stunning!!!

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JoanMN
17 years ago
What wonderful shots!!
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sowngrow (8a) G
17 years ago
Very nice! I especially like being able to see the red and yellow on them, up close.
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hawkeye_wx
17 years ago
Today I saw one of the waxwings again while working in the garden. It and a couple robins were in the neighbor's tree eating serviceberries. I now have to assume they have been in the serviceberry trees in past years and I just didn't notice them.
Konrad___far_north
Original Author
17 years ago
Thank you all!

Now.. got the icing on the cake, this pink flowering crab-apple tree I have grown from a seed.

..

Konrad
lisa11310
17 years ago
Konrad, I really think you should submitt the pic of the 3 in a tree to the photo of the month, you know we will all vote for you. I have had them come through my yard a couple time a year but this year I am especially blessed with a Waxwing nest!!! Very rare. They have become regular bathers at my pond.
Konrad___far_north
Original Author
17 years ago
Thank you for your consideration, Lisa!
I'm glad you like # 2 ..I know it's hard to get 3 birds in one shot, these guy's look kind of cool but I have a issue a bit
with sharpness, it seems everything has to be dead on to land one.
I can see you have a bird paradise at your place, perhaps you can share some of yours?

This one from yesterday, my wife did with her point and shoot camera. This camera does a amazing job in low light,...evening around 8.30 and cloudy.

Konrad
lisa11310
17 years ago
OH, I see what you mean. This must be more of a tech thing, using the camera to it's limits? They want to see every tip of every feather and give most of the credit to the camera? I just think that pic is a work of art, I think the "soft edges" enhances the beauty of the birds and the flowers. May I print it and hang it? I could send you a few very bad pictures of my little pond, never seem to be able to get the brids that love it so much to pose for me. Wax wings, Indigos, Tanagers, Orioles, Towhees, Cardinals, Gold Finches, Grosbeaks, Dees, Robins, all make a very colorful splash along with all the flowers blooming around it and the goldies IN it..
Konrad___far_north
Original Author
17 years ago
Sure, you can print it, let me know if you need a larger file size.
You sure have a large verities of birds! ...thanks again.

Konrad
kenn3d
17 years ago
Beautiful captures Konrad,

Love the colors in the crab-apple shots. :)

Kenn
cukesalad
14 years ago
I realize this is a really old thread and that you probably won't reply, but that photo is gorgeous! I can't believe that was taken with a point and shoot. I have a nice Canon and am always shooting in manual mode and yet this shot rivals anything I've ever shot. What the heck kind of camera does she have?? All the photos on this thread are beautiful. Just saw a flock of waxwings in my neighbor's crab apple this afternoon. :)
Konrad___far_north
Original Author
14 years ago
Thank you all!
Cuke,..the camera is a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Hope you can capture them soon!

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