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THE CEDAR WAXWING
The beautiful Cedar Waxwing is identified by its pronounced delicate robe of contrasting colors and silky texture. Cedar Waxwings are intensive foragers and have been reported to devour an entire fruit crop of red cedars over a two day period. Such feats have earned them their name and led to the belief that these birds are an important disperser of red cedar. After the mating season ends (late Summer), Cedar Waxwings will travel in flocks of 40 or more birds. They are gregarious, sociable creatures who eat lots of berries and insects.
Identification
Identified as a trim crested bird at 6 1/2 to 8" long. The adult is grayish-brown and crested with a black mask and chin, yellow belly, white undertail coverts and a yellow band across the tip of its tail. The red appendages or vibrant "sealing wax" at the end of its secondary wings give this bird its name.
Range and Habitat
Summer range is Canada and the Central U.S., generally Wintering in the Southern half of the U.S. They are a year round resident of the Pacific Northwest, Central and Northeast U.S.
The Cedar Waxwing prefers forest edges or open woodlands as a general habitat. They also enjoy orchards, gardens and parks with shade trees and live in areas where maples, alders and dogwoods grow. They prefer to nest in maple or cedar trees. In abundance where berry producing trees and shrubs are found and watercourses such as rivers and streams flow.
Feeding Preferences
The Cedar Waxwing is a voracious eater. The Cedar Waxwing's primary diet consists of berries, flower petals and insects. During the Summer they dine on elm leaf beetles, weevils, carpenter ants, sawfly larvae, flies, cicadas, scale insects, and caterpillars. Ripe berries provide food in the Fall and Winter. Cedar Waxwings have been known to sit in a row on a berry bush and pass a berry or insect between one another!
You can attract these beautiful birds to your backyard by:
Creating a forest edge or open woodland with trees. Plant trees they like such as alders, maples and dogwoods, or their favorite nesting trees: cedar and maple.
Offer chopped or sliced apples, raisins or currants on a platform feeder. They are difficult to entice to a feeder, but once they notice it they will consume large quantities!
Try offering an apple on a special fruit feeder!
Make sure you have a bird bath or water source. Like most fruit eating birds, they get quite thirsty.
Plant berry producing trees and shrubs such as juniper, European mountain ash, pyracantha, cotoneaster, dogwood, mistletoe, apple, hawthorn, California peppertree, grapes, strawberries, mulberry, cherry, privet, yew, toyon, hackberry and choke cherry.
In the spring, during nesting season, they will readily use wool, string, hair or other nesting materials set out by humans. Offer these nesting materials in the bark of a tree or a suet cage.
Screen prints, hand pulled, 3 and 2 layer prints. edition of 6 and 5.
Size: 28x36cm (printed surface), 38x48cm (paper size). Hand signed and numbered.
Egyptian Fruit Bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) munching through some fruits. Finally got to see some bats in some light at a zoo. Plus got to see it eat in front of me. :D Taken at Omaha Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
(Tobacco Hornworn)
Film: Film Photography Project 4x5 X-ray Film
Camera: Burke and James 4x5 Commercial View
Lens: Schneider Symmar 180mm/5.6
Developer: HC-110 Dilution H (1:63)
"We were just in the mood for some aggressive music which the scene then lacked there off, music inspired by personal encounters with hurt and despair, music with life and soul.."
Felix Rosales of SAUNA
vocalscreams/words/imagery
LAGISTA event : “Our Angels and Kings” –The Harmony of Our Souls
Saltwater Bar, Pansol, Calamba City
February 13, 2009
unexpressed feelings yearning to let go
but to keep it that i do not want to do
for when it pressures inside me
it will just have to burst
and emotions may scatter with nowhere to go
when compromise sets in
you have to choose
and choosing will tell what it is to come
and at times your choices may pain others
or may pain you
then you have to sacrifice
for how many times I chose
got them hurt
hurt myself
either way i knew it was right
I may stand on the edge
for all I care as long as it matters
bears right
gives love
sheds light
in moments like this
I edify myself
to focus
to learn
for to sacrifice one's self
for your sake
other's sake
is an expression of love either way
Sacrifice, by Amalei Masigla
(Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali)
Garuda = the mythic "king of the birds," the vehicle of Vishnu. The word is usually rendered into English as "eagle," though according to one dictionary the name literally means "devourer," because Garuda was originally identified with the "all-consuming fire of the sun’s rays." (yogajournal.com)
28/365 2-28-08
[Joe's Midnight Run]
About Devour Phoenix:
Devour Phoenix is a citywide, non-profit coalition of select, independent restaurants operating under the Local First Arizona umbrella. Devour Phoenix is working to maintain a forum for sharing ideas, purchasing power, and marketing dollars to advance dining in the Phoenix area; create an image for Phoenix that is a respected destination for dining and culinary exploration; share resources to strengthen and grow restaurants in Phoenix; manage and host events such as culinary festivals and restaurant crawls that will strengthen business and build awareness for all Phoenix restaurants and identify and encourage the use of local agriculture and local artisans as a means for increasing sustainability in the region.
After a rain storm the previous day it was a pleasant surprise to see much of the sand sculpture still standing.
About Devour Phoenix:
Devour Phoenix is a citywide, non-profit coalition of select, independent restaurants operating under the Local First Arizona umbrella. Devour Phoenix is working to maintain a forum for sharing ideas, purchasing power, and marketing dollars to advance dining in the Phoenix area; create an image for Phoenix that is a respected destination for dining and culinary exploration; share resources to strengthen and grow restaurants in Phoenix; manage and host events such as culinary festivals and restaurant crawls that will strengthen business and build awareness for all Phoenix restaurants and identify and encourage the use of local agriculture and local artisans as a means for increasing sustainability in the region.
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