Birds Everywhere!!!!

[smurfy]

nice enough to put the bird bath out today.......

[Mike89]

seen a bunch of flickers today...   had to refill the bird bath already!!!!   

[chaffmj]

Killdeer in Ely 6 days ago.

 

[smurfy]

there is still ice on Scneider Lake between Cold Spring and Richmond....... some open water but had a pair of loons !!!!!!!!!!

[Mike89]

loons are back here too!!!

[fishingstar]

ice came off the lake today. Seen two pair of loons in front of the house. To bad they won't stay long.

[Wanderer]

Need some help.  About a dozen of these are dead or dying together and it looks like it might be from the tree fruit they ate.  
 

I heard that can be a thing.  What’s the assessment?

 

The last one has some of the fruit on his beak yet.

[smurfy]

Those are cedar waxwings. In the fall they will clear a tree out in huge groups. Mostly I think mountain ash berries. Maybe since they last over winter they fermented and killed the bird. That fruit does look similar to an ash berry??

[Duffman]

When I seen your post on the sidebar, I thought Cedar Waxwings right away.

They used to get drunk from eating the fermented berries at our high school inner courtyard and then fly into the windows of the vestibule hallway with windows on both sides, dozens dead on impact every spring.

 

It looks like it might be something other than just drunk,

 Alcohol poisoning?

Edited April 22, 2023 by Duffman

[Wanderer]

That’s kinda where I was headed with my thoughts.  And they were mainly near a bank of low windows.

[Duffman]

Are you sure they are dead and not passed out?

I suppose they could succumb to the cold after being passed out.

[chaffmj]

That is just crazy!

[Duffman]

Just now, Wanderer said:

That’s kinda where I was headed with my thoughts.  And they were mainly near a bank of low windows.

 

Yea, like I said.........like clockwork, getting drunk and hitting those windows. Always shook my head walking by, very pretty birds.

[Wanderer]

There were only two that showed any sign of life.  One fluttered away from me a little bit but that puffed out one never moved, except slaking his wing a little.  Eyes closed.  Could’ve easily been passed out!

[Wanderer]

14 minutes ago, Duffman said:

Are you sure they are dead and not passed out?

I suppose they could succumb to the cold after being passed out.

The one that was fairly upright still.

 

[smurfy]

Better get them in rehab!

 

Or inside and mya pot of coffee.

[leech~~]

55 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

The one that was fairly upright still.

 

Send some pics to the DNR.  

[Wanderer]

1 hour ago, leech~~ said:

Send some pics to the DNR.  

I suppose I could, eh?

[leech~~]

55 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

I suppose I could, eh?

Or may be the Wild life folks over a law enforcement guy?  

[smurfy]

10 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Or may be the Wild life folks over a law enforcement guy?  

this might just sting a bit......but i tend to agree with Leech!!!!!! not sure a warden would care to much about songbirds over the nongame people!!!!!

 

he may help with a contact though!!!!!!!

[Wanderer]

6 hours ago, smurfy said:

this might just sting a bit......but i tend to agree with Leech!!!!!! not sure a warden would care to much about songbirds over the nongame people!!!!!

 

he may help with a contact though!!!!!!!

No worries smurfy!  I wasn’t gonna expect too much out of contacting him, except maybe exactly that; relaying info.

 

I doubt this will raise the eyebrows much for the DNR.

[leech~~]

4 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

No worries smurfy!  I wasn’t gonna expect too much out of contacting him, except maybe exactly that; relaying info.

 

I doubt this will raise the eyebrows much for the DNR.

I agree with Duff's experienced assessment!  Alcohol poisoning! 

 

[chaffmj]

[Wanderer]

Just confirmed I have at least one pair of Woodies in the boxes.  Just watched em drop in while burning some tree cleanup.

 

Oh, and the cedar waxwing drink fest is a regular spring thing according to my grounds guy.  It was just never reported before.

 

[smurfy]

any hummingbird or oriole sightings yet??? probably gonna put some jelly out but wait till next week for juice!!!!!!