The cedar waxwing is easily found in open habitat where there are berries. It times its nesting to coincide with summer berry production, putting it among the latest of North American birds to nest. It is highly gregarious; flocks of hundreds, occasionally thousands, are encountered during migration and winter.
I haven’t seen a cedar waxwing in years. I used to see them when I lived in Newbury, and a flock would land in a tree in the yard that had red berries. They would perch in a line along a branch. The first bird would pick a berry and then pass it to the next bird in line and on down until the last in line would eat it and on they would go in a progressive communal dinner party. It was the coolest thing to witness. This one was gathering dry stuff, obviously to make a nest.
E.J. Lefavour
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We saw a cedar waxwing just yesterday collecting berries over off Beach Road on our way down to Good Harbor. It seemed rather curious about us as we walked by, then it returned to the business of berries.
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I think they are one of the coolest looking little birds, with their Zorro mask, tufted head, and yellow wax dipped tail feathers and red dipped wings.
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Very beautiful Bird and the little feather points on the head stand out sort of like a cardinal – clear day across the Ipswich bay from the break-wall at lanes cove (Hole in the wall) fishing could see across to Plum Island-Newbury Port. Were headed that way in speedboat but weather was bad when laving cove and got worse as we went – weather picked up with waves decided to turn around and come back had to moor up in lobster cove close to where friend lived. Prudent move I’ll say…:-) Dave & Kim 🙂
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Nice photo EJ. They truly are beautiful. We had dozens of cedar waxwings land in our yard one day. First time we ever saw them. They stayed until they devoured all the berries off our Eastern Red Cedar (juniper) bushes. So fun to watch.
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