It took about twelve minutes

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For the cedar waxwings to eat every single berry on my pyracantha!

Taken through my dirty office window:





Yummy!



Almost Done!



The end>>>>>>>>

[talkingmime]

1. I'm thinking "fat, dumb, and happy" birds.

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4. they sure seemed ravenous! n/t

[alfredo]

2. After their meal, they all flew off to poop on white cars.

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5. I better go check my car! n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. Beautiful birds!

Nice captures!

The hummingbirds are back and I've an Indigo Bunting hanging about.

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6. Indigo bunting??

Wonderful. I only have one shot of an indigo bunting and it's not that great. But I cherish it for its scarcity, at least in my files, LOL.

[Solly Mack]

8. He's very pretty. He's been pecking about under the feeders.

Haven't got a great shot of him yet. He flies away as soon as I get too close for him. The other birds are used to me more or less.

Here's a bad shot or two.






Also have a blue-gray gnatcatcher hanging around. He doesn't get too close at all.


Here's a greedy little bird.

[Celebration]

9. Aw, nice photos!

Thinking positively for your getting an even better photo of that indigo bunting though.

[csziggy]

7. Great pictures! A flock of waxwings showed up in my holly tree the other day

They only ate about a third of the berries. The goldfinches and chipping sparrows started raising a ruckus and I think that scared the waxwings. The flock of 18-20 flew to the water trough we leave dripping over, took wet sand baths and then they all flew away.

[Celebration]

10. Have any photos?

We've lived here a long time and never have I caught this event in action!

[csziggy]

12. No, not that time

I was moving plants around in the garden and taking a break when they showed up. Even if I'd been fast enough to grab the camera, my hand were covered in red clay so I wouldn't have wanted to handle my camera.

Here are some shots from a few years back when the waxwings would come to the birdbath at the old house - only about 100 yards from where the holly is now:

[Mira]

11. Everybody in their element

including you!
Great shots and brilliant color in the first ones. Like the story, of course.