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Christopher Felts
Aberdeen, MD, United States
On a bright sunny day we saw a lone cedar waxwing and were very surprised that it hung out in our yard for hours as we snapped photos of it!
Week 11: Natural Foods
Species: Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Flock of cedar waxwings visiting my Citrus Heights CA backyard each day! I am thrilled as they are perhaps my favorite bird! I have large privet in the backyard and pyracantha and nandina in the front. I am offering water baths mixed songbird seeds and cracked corn. The seed mix is heavy with black oil sunflower. Birds I have seen in my yard besides the waxwings: mourning doves,robins.dark-eyed juncos,brown towhees, hummingbirds black phoebe,red-breasted finches,northern flickers,bushtits,crested grey titmice, mocking birds,etc Much to my dismay, goldfinches are no longer coming to my thistle feeders– Any suggestions?. Tedi
How do you seen online about Nandina berries being toxic and killing cedar waxwings? Having seen them eat the berries off of my native Holly tree, I observed at the gorge on the berries very fast, kind of like us with peanuts. You may want to consider removing your Nandinas
Have you seen online about Nandina berries being toxic and killing cedar waxwings? Having seen them eat the berries off of my native Holly tree, I observed how they gorge on the berries very fast, kind of like us with peanuts. You may want to consider removing your Nandinas. I removed mine, once I learned the berries are toxic and can kill wildlife and birds (especially cedar waxwings.)
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