Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:12:12 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: loads of waxwings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Today, 5/20, after coming home from work at 1:30pm, I noticed a small flock of 28 Cedar Waxwings at the huge Mulberry Tree across alley from my yard and this flock came down to my maple for a while and feast on berries at the Holly Tree at 2 houses down. 6 minutes later, a flock of 12 drop out of the sky from the SSE and join the first flock at the Maple Tree and 4 minutes later, another flock of 15 more birds and that brings a total of 55 birds. For the next 3 and a half hours they were busy on eating and flying from one tree to another. Also some pairs are doing a love stuff, male bear a gift of a berry to his mate. Later at 5pm, A pair of Cedar Waxwing passing over the yard from the South and drop out somewhere in the "Hawk Watch" Ridge (there are different flock of waxwings at the the ridge with 8 birds). Later at 6:47pm, a flock of 8 drop out from the SE and join the gang between the Mulberry Tree and the Holly Tree. At 6:51pm, another flock of 10 birds again drop out from the SSE and again at 7pm, 18 more birds from the SE and that brings a total of 94 birds busy of berries. At around 7:35pm, the flock of 94 birds had gone N somewhere. I haven't seen one in the yard since the spring of 1995??, but usually see them migrating south while counting hawks. The yard yard with 94 and the ridge with 8 brings a total of 102 Cedar Waxwing. Impressive!! Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD hawkwatch_21206@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================