Bohemian Waxwings Volume 2

I took another couple hundred photos of Bohemian Waxwings yesterday. Since so many of you seem to enjoy them, I'll post a few more of the best shots.

Gary

Standing on it's head to reach dinner.

Look closely, you will notice the head is "on backwards". lol. Well, at least turned upside down.

It's after 11 AM, and only twilight, do to the heavy ice fog. Sure hope the ice fog will burns off soon, so I can go out again today.

Gorgeous pictures! They just look like very "stately" birds, that is, until they do their acrobatics to get their food. So, they are stately, with personality to boot. :)

Watching the BW's feeding is a lot like watching the traipse performers in the circus!

Breathtaking and Beautiful...Thank you for the wonderful pics!

Beautiful pics Gary! Looks like he caught you looking at him in that last pic.

Great photos, Gary. The snow and red berries certainly enhance the overall photo. I run into a flock of Cedar Waxwings on occasion but have no photos of them in snow.

They just don't look real! Beautiful

I'm still sorting yesterdays Bohemian Waxwing pictures. I like the contorted position I caught this one in.

Beautiful!!!

Nice pics!

Interesting that the rowan berries are all still nice and plump and red, here the few that are left have turned black and dried out or rotten. I guess the cold preserves them.

Resin

Another lovely pic Gary!

The berries have been frozen for a long time, so there is no spoilage. The birds have some difficulty crushing and eating the forzen berries. The season is short enough that apples don't fall off the trees in the fall. However, they do rot and/or ferment. Decorative Crap Apples trees are commonly used in landscaping. The apples are all brown and shriveled. Some have a high alcohol content. There was a drunk moose in the down town business district last month. It had been observed eating rotten apples. Many species of birds are eating apples also.

This is a new picture I took today. I only went out for a few minutes during a break in the clouds. A block before I reached the location, I took three shots of a Merlin. She must have been watching this flock from her parch before I interrupted. She was back light and too distant for any quality pictures.

Gary