A Few from the Apple Tree

[Jim Almquist]

Love having them chow down in the front yard.

[TruthWalleyes]

Great photos.

What kind of bird is this? The detail of the small red feathers is really neat!

[Jim Almquist]

They are Cedar Waxwings.

[Dbl]

Very nice work Jim!

[dockothebay]

Lucky you! These are really pretty!!

[Dotch]

My gosh Jim, those are just beautiful.

[captainshane]

Nice shots of a cool lookin bird!

[JayinMN]

Very cool and what a great combo, you lucky guy!

[finnbay]

Very nice, Jim! They make such a photogenic subject!

[Jim Almquist]

Thanks for all the nice comments. My only wish is that they would stick around longer. Two days and they are done and hit the road till next spring. I have a couple of Mountain Ash but they are just starting to have fruit and the Robins eat them up before the Waxwings can find them.

[ShawnZ]

Very nice Mr.Almquist.

I think the flora and avifauna go so well together here.

This year, I missed out on the narrow window of opportunity that you eluded to.

Of course I don't have the luxury of having the apple trees in my yard...luck you!

[reinhard1]

very nice pictures. good luck.

[EBass]

Fished da MN river last Sunday and the Cedar Waxwings were all over picking off the mayflies in mid air. They kept us entertained. Very crisp pics!

[MN Shutterbug]

I have a flowering crabapple and nothing seems to dine in that tree. Maybe I have fussier eaters around here. Nice pics.

[katoguy]

I have a flowering crabapple and nothing seems to dine in that tree. Maybe I have fussier eaters around here. Nice pics.

Some of the hybrid flowering type crabapples are not nearly as popular with the birds as the old standby natives.

[flipper]

Last year the cedar wax wings raided my cherry trees. They at every last cherry just the stems and the pits were hanging on the trees. This year I might get some netting.

[CaptainMusky]

Thanks for all the nice comments. My only wish is that they would stick around longer. Two days and they are done and hit the road till next spring. I have a couple of Mountain Ash but they are just starting to have fruit and the Robins eat them up before the Waxwings can find them.

I have these little buggers around my house all summer. More prevalent in the Fall when they come through to harvest the fermenting crab apples. Poor little fellars have lost their life several times flying into my windows.

They are a neat bird, for years I had no idea what they were. I have a couple pair nesting in the Spruce trees next to my house right now. I saw them feeding young last night.

When they come through its in droves in the Fall, like 25 30 of them and they clean out the tree and gone, just like you said.

[Jim Almquist]

Watching them feed there young has to be a very cool sight!!!

[CaptainMusky]

Watching them feed there young has to be a very cool sight!!!

Yes it is fun! I wish my bluebirds would have come back this year. The tree swallows got in their house, though I prefer the bluebirds, they are a decent bird too so I didnt chase them out.

I am a little mad at the family of wrens that took up shop in one of my other bluebird houses. I keep telling them I have a nice wren house for them farther back, but they dont seem to listen. LOL

[harvey lee]

Great photos JIm, I just love the beautiful pics you post here.

Keep um coming.