Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:22:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: Watch your Waxwings! In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >The only time I ever saw a good number of Bohemian Waxwings all at one >time was on January 17, 2000 in Two Harbors, Minnesota - north of >Duluth. There were hundreds in a mixed flock with Cedar Waxwings. My >notes say the flock numbered almost 1000 birds. It was snowing like >crazy at the time. The birds were feeding on Mountain Ash berries. It >had been over an hour since we had seen a bird (or indeed another >living thing!), so we were much cheered to see the waxwings, as I >recall. Mike Bowen Bethesda >on 01/24/2004 12:55 PM, David Mozurkewich at mozurk@BELLATLANTIC.NET >wrote: > > > Looking for Bohemian Waxwings is always a good idea, but is this a > > good search strategy? Back in my younger days, I lived in the Rocky > > Mountains where both waxwing species were regular. I *N*E*V*E*R* > > saw a mixed flock. While that experience may not be relevant since > > it is from a different era and a very different part of the world, > > it still colors my expectations. > > > > How do stray Bohemian Waxwings behave in the East? What are the > > details of that South Point record? (I was out of state for the > > winter of '93 - > > '94.) Although I do sort through flocks of Cedars, it's that lone waxwing > > in a flock of robins that demands from me a second look. > > > > Dave > > David Mozurkewich > > Seabrook, PG MD USA > > mozurk @ bellAtlantic.net D. H. Michael Bowen (Mike) 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817-3845 Tel/Fax: (301) 530-5764 e-mail: dhmbowen@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================