Outdoor Ontario

Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: aviator on November 24, 2017, 10:57:55 PM

Title: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: aviator on November 24, 2017, 10:57:55 PM: This was Waxwing day in my yard. There was competition for the last berries and strangely for one of our birdbaths. If they couldn't get in the bath they lined up on the tree over it and then dropped in.

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(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23795865_163870317689455_7105189911161663118_n.jpg?oh=99e84fc98703857b0b97b09cbe2341ad&oe=5A9A7DD3)
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23795551_163870391022781_7540456815930492894_n.jpg?oh=0ece092e86f81935991e697962628318&oe=5A899601)
Look out below!
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Anyone see that Goshawk?
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Just dropping in
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The Robin has had enough.
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23844721_163870594356094_397950798262674391_n.jpg?oh=796e3a79f565a06e060a7030ebca407e&oe=5A92DF47)
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23843595_163870727689414_2420433214161496379_n.jpg?oh=8be041e8acdf7dd92f38996477d4a35e&oe=5AA328A0)
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24058867_163870977689389_475292705021052664_n.jpg?oh=dc744601d700c93b4145c5bb9163340a&oe=5A95B599)
Even the squirrel had to wait.
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Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: Ally on November 24, 2017, 11:04:01 PM: What a party!
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: Ally on November 24, 2017, 11:08:56 PM: I can't stop looking at the second photo, because the lower one is so cute, he looks like a penguin, and the higher one looks like he has that twig on his beak.
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: Shortsighted on November 25, 2017, 08:58:04 AM: What about #5?
Maestro Robin conducting a frustratingly non-compliant waxwing orchestra
and just seconds away from resigning its commission in a fit of shear exasperation.
"These waxwings understand ... NOTHING!"
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: aviator on November 26, 2017, 04:27:15 PM: Actually I think they were waiting for the percussion section which was waiting " in the wings"
(https://preview.ibb.co/iYBYa6/P1180285_001.jpg)
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: aviator on November 26, 2017, 04:30:32 PM: And here comes the cleanup crew
(https://preview.ibb.co/iaPx2m/P1180945.jpg)
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: aviator on November 26, 2017, 04:37:12 PM: This was the prior shot to number 2 and they were either in a beaklock or passing a berry so probably not both males, Ally.
(https://preview.ibb.co/fAGc2m/P1180769.jpg)
Title: Re: Cedar waxwings and friends
Post by: Ally on November 26, 2017, 08:00:18 PM: Hi Aviator, thanks for telling me. I saw a bunch of European starlings today by Danville Park. They are huge birds!