This Cedar Waxwing may not be able to fly after gorging itself on berries this morning. In a few hours it will also be quite tipsy! It is amazing to watch how much food one bird can eat when they finally discover a good food source at the end of the Winter when sustenance is otherwise scarce. Enjoy the photo sequence of one Cedar Waxwing as it it has  … just one more berry!

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Uff Dah … not one more berry!

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Well … maybe this one.

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Got it!

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Open mouth wider.

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Hmmmm …

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Down the hatch!

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No room!

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What do you mean? Fly now? Are you kidding!

In the Winter (or the Spring migration after a snow), find the food and you will find the birds! Such was the case this morning when I took my morning bird walk. When I first went outside the world was dead. There was no sound or movement. However, in the course of walking 400 yards I started hearing birdsong. Soon I was hearing a major chorus of hundreds of birds. Turning the corner, I discovered a huge berry tree. In the surrounding trees were hundreds of robins, cedar waxwings, and red-wing blackbirds. Given the amount of snow on the ground this tree represented an oasis of food in an otherwise bleak landscape. You’ll also notice it was snowing during many of these photos.

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A Cedar Waxwing Eating Breakfast.

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Which Berry Next?

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This One!

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Berry Inspection In Progress!

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Snow Berries!