Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:24:53 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Floyd Parks Subject: Re: Watch your Waxwings! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I saw a mixed flock in Brunswick, Maine.......about 50/50. Michael Bowen Sent by: Maryland Birds & Birding 01/24/2004 05:22 PM Please respond to Maryland Birds & Birding To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM cc: Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Watch your Waxwings! >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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================