Cedar Waxwing (nest building) **I will be traveling June 23-30*
I apologize for my sporadic posts and comments . I have been having a great deal of difficulty logging into my Flickr account and when I do get in it takes forever to get comments and photos to load. For several days I couldn't even find my account and I still only have one portal that will work. If they change things and that one goes down I am out of luck.
Anyway I wanted to leave what I thought was a rather interesting behavioral series of the resident waxwings. I have watched them foraging on crabapples, pokeberries and blueberries many times. But this is the first time I have ever seen them collect nest materials. There were at least two different pair at work. They were pulling tufts from the twine I had used to make runners for the Vining Cypress and Scarlet Runners Beans. They pulled enough threads out of several of them to collapse the poles. I finally resorted to tying bits of twine on the poles just so they could use it as nest material.
There are two more pictures posted in the comments and separately.
Mike and I are taking a workshop on photographing water fowl (specifically loons and grebes). But the instructor assured us there would be plenty of other photo ops including some nice foggy sunrise shots over the lake. Hopefully I will return with some decent posts and maybe by then Flickr will have sorted out some of its gliches. HMMMMM either that or I may not be able to find my account at all.
Cedar Waxwing (nest building) **I will be traveling June 23-30*
I apologize for my sporadic posts and comments . I have been having a great deal of difficulty logging into my Flickr account and when I do get in it takes forever to get comments and photos to load. For several days I couldn't even find my account and I still only have one portal that will work. If they change things and that one goes down I am out of luck.
Anyway I wanted to leave what I thought was a rather interesting behavioral series of the resident waxwings. I have watched them foraging on crabapples, pokeberries and blueberries many times. But this is the first time I have ever seen them collect nest materials. There were at least two different pair at work. They were pulling tufts from the twine I had used to make runners for the Vining Cypress and Scarlet Runners Beans. They pulled enough threads out of several of them to collapse the poles. I finally resorted to tying bits of twine on the poles just so they could use it as nest material.
There are two more pictures posted in the comments and separately.
Mike and I are taking a workshop on photographing water fowl (specifically loons and grebes). But the instructor assured us there would be plenty of other photo ops including some nice foggy sunrise shots over the lake. Hopefully I will return with some decent posts and maybe by then Flickr will have sorted out some of its gliches. HMMMMM either that or I may not be able to find my account at all.