Waxwing pictures (and test of the new and improved Dropbox)

[hal]

There has been a flock of 50 waxwings flitting about around here recently. I nabbed these shots in the last couple of days. They really like the berries on the tree right outside my front door. Just adorable little birdies. I had never seen them until a move in 2010 and even then, not often, but at this new place there are LOTS around all the time.








hosting on dropbox is a lot harder than it used to be. would be quite a chore for a 20 picture post, but it's still better than anything else at hand.

As suggested to me earlier, swap the 'www' in the address with a 'dl' and the embed works like it used to.

[Uncle Wig]

Noice.

[ka jowct]

The images are not showing up for me. If I command-click on the missing image icon, and select View Image, the image appears. But it doesn't want to stick.

Aha: Privacy Badger was blocking the Dropbox links. Fixed it! Nice shots, as usual, Hal.

[$tevie]

Beautiful photos.

Our famous family story is the time my father was looking at his life list and mentioned that he had never seen a Cedar Waxwing. Maybe a week later, seriously within days of his comment, our little tortie the hunter left a dead Cedar Waxwing on the front porch. My father was having a fit when my mother sweetly said, but dear she must have heard you say you'd never seen one. Dad did not laugh.

[Don C]

What kind of tree is it that has attracted them? I too have yet to see one live. Heard the story from a friend about them clearing the American Holly trees of their red berries a week or two before my friend wanted them for Christmas decorating.

[DP]

Cedar Waxwings eat bugs too. When we're on the river in kayaks it's fun to watch them fly off the branch, catch a bug over the river, then return to their perch to await the next snack. Beautiful birds. Nice pix!

[flareslow]

They are fond of pyrocatha berries too.