Cedar Waxwings

[911]

Wow!

It was Alfred Hitchcock in my front and back yard today.

Birds were coming in flocks to eat some berries off my tree today. I don't know what kind of tree it is, I've known them as China Berry trees and I always called them Halloween trees. I called them that because the berries would be red and in the Fall they would turn orange. But this bush/tree's berries haven't turned orange in several years.

Today, birds were eating the stew out of these berries. I've always heard they were poisonous. I guess not to certain birds. Now, I don't know my birds very well, but I knew enough to look them up. I've never seen them before or at least not that I noticed until today when there were so many of them.

I sat at my upstairs window and watched them eat the berries. They were so close I could have reached out and touched them. The tree would be full and then suddenly they would fly away. I watched those little birds eat five berries at one time. Big berries for little birds.

Here's what they look like. I played the call for them and they looked into the window. That was wild!:-6

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/159/ov ... xwing.aspx

[abbey]

How lovely :-6

So does this mean you'll be cleaning bird poop up all week?

[911]

Yeah, I expect to be scraping red ick off my car for about a week

:-5