I was cleaning windows in our hallway and happened to see that a small flock of waxwings were poking around in the crabapple tree
Not quite ready yet, surprised they’re showing up this early; the crop doesn’t usually ripen until January and we’ve only had a few good frosts so far this fall but we had an odd summer so maybe they’ll be early. When it’s time, the tree will be full of birds - waxwings, starlings, robins and a very frustrated mockingbird who tries to keep it all to himself.
I take it you are back in VA. The Waxwings must be working their way south, we don’t usually see any of them until around Feb. or March. I think they by-passed us this year. My poor crabapple tree has never had such a crop as that, probably because it doesn’t get enough sunlight due to the Leland Cypress my neighbor planted on the property line.
We get monster flocks of bohemian waxwings here in the elderberries, mountain ash, bird cherries, and crabapples… Many hundreds at a time. Have not seen a cedar waxwing in many years. It is below zero right now so I expect they will start showing any time…
I had a very large flock of them here in East Tennessee about a month or so ago eating the berries off the Privet bushes that grow all along my fence line.
