Hi Everyone,

I observed a flock of Cedar Waxwings feeding on the Black Locust blossoms yesterday morning.  Several different birds would pick blossoms and then feed them to another.  At first it looked indiscriminate but then I noticed one pair exclusively feeding each other.

One would pick a flower and feed it to the other. The one who received would eat it and then the one offering it would jump a few inches away form the bird on the same branch and then jump back next to it. The bird receiving the flower would then do the dame jumping motion and then come back to the same spot.  They repeated the jumping for several more times.

Has anyone aver seen this behavior before? Is this courtship behavior?

I also heard a Black-throated Blue Warbler calling at the same time in Nanjemoy.

Naturally,
Mike Callahan
Nanjemoy, Charles County MD