I have been seeing large flocks of cedar waxwings at Pt. Edwards in the trees at the top of Pine St. on the Edmonds-Woodway frontier. Photos and narratives start on page and continue intermittently through page 58.


Wldlife of Edmonds, WA. 2014 - Page 56



Wldlife of Edmonds, WA. 2014 - Page 56
At 62 pages, the original Edmonds wildlife thread was getting a bit cumbersome, so I am starting a new one for 2014. This will also help me in the year ahea...
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Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA. USA


On Thursday, October 9, 2014 3:33 PM, "Tucker, Trileigh" <TRI at seattleu.edu> wrote:



Hi Tweets,

Barb Diehl?s report of recent wicka-wicka-ing by flickers prompted me to comment that I?ve also been noticing this in my yard; for about the past week, they?ve been making the same calls and doing the same round-the-trunk chasing behavior that she noticed.

And last Thursday 10/2, Tony Varela asked whether anyone else has been seeing large flocks of Cedar Waxwings. Because I?ve only this summer moved into my new house NE of Lowman Beach in West Seattle, I can?t tell whether this sighting is unusual for the site, but just now a pretty large flock of waxwings, who appeared to be mostly juveniles, arrived chattering into a tall deciduous tree nearby, then left in a swoosh. At first I thought they might have been triggered by the crows flying overhead, then I heard a Coop calling from another tree, so that might have flushed them.

Alas, although the photos were enough for ID, the flock was too backlit and distant to allow photos as good as Tony?s.

Good birding,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
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