On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> >Speaking of waxwings, does anyone know where the chance of seeing a
> >Bohemian might be greater? I believe the only ones I've seen are
> >Cedar.
> >
> >wes jansen
>
> <go north young man.>
> Or go east, young man. They are fairly common in the cities and towns of
> eastern Washington most winters. Just drive around and look for trees with
> fruit on them. This is a time when you can often see both species of
> waxwings together.
>

I've been told that the road between Moscow, ID and Pullman, WA is
a particularly good area to find both waxwings during wintertime;
apparently they like to feed in the trees behind a gravel frontage road
there. Considering the numbers of waxwings in the flocks that visit the
fruit trees near the law building at the U. of Idaho, I think it likely
that some Bohemians could sneak in there--in fact, all the locals have
seen them in such conditions, all the locals except me, that is....:)
We had a wonderful experience last year at Winchester Lake. We
took the boat out and went up a small little inlet and got to some
wetlandy stuff. A whole bunch of Cedar Waxwings were busy swooping the
water and catching bugs in the air...sometimes right above our heads! It
was a lot of fun; made us divert attention from the quite attention-worthy
osprey that was perched nearby.

-Pat
scott931 at uidaho.edu