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David Alexander / 53 items

the cedar waxwings dropped in again today
N 25 B 301 C 4 E Mar 10, 2017 F Mar 10, 2017
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cedar waxwing in another backyard tree
N 22 B 390 C 5 E Mar 9, 2017 F Mar 9, 2017
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Still my favorite bird, I think, so distinctive -

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cedar waxwing in backyard tree
N 18 B 372 C 2 E Mar 9, 2017 F Mar 9, 2017
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I enjoy their visits. Couldn't get any with berry mouthfuls this time, though - the berries were too deep in the tree.

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"Those golden breast feathers fading upward to pale brown, and backward to gray, give the cedar waxwing a kind of borrowed glow, as though it were lit at all times from sunlight glancing off snow. Its pointed crest and dashing mask — ...
N 25 B 1.6K C 2 E Feb 6, 2017 F Feb 26, 2017
G United States > Texas > Travis > Austin > Northwest Austin
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...a wraparound slash of black — sharpen its pale watercolors into a mien of fierceness. It’s a tiny bandit with flamboyant red wingtips and a brash streak of yellow across the end of its tail feather. An operatic aria of a bird. A flying jungle flower."
- from "What Dying Looks Like" by Margaret Renkl in NY Times, Feb. 26. It's a beautiful but sad essay on the death of a waxwing, and death in general. www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/opinion/sunday/what-dying-look...

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another cedar waxwing with berries
N 19 B 391 C 3 E Feb 25, 2017 F Feb 25, 2017
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My waxwing luck continues - a group lit in the tree in front of us on the dog walk this afternoon -

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