Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:39:55 -0800
Reply-To: JOHN AND JUNE CLARK <jcandjc2@VERIZON.NET>
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From: JOHN AND JUNE CLARK <jcandjc2@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Waxwings & others
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0701191800160.16277@leukothea>
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Eran, the Cedar Waxwing/Mockingbird scenario you
describe is what got June and me interesting in bird
watching. We were living in Fort Worth. Watched a
Piracantha bush at the corner of our porch being
stripped clean as the proprietary Mockingbird stood by
helpless.
John and June Clark
--- Eran Tomer <etomer@EMORY.EDU> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Cedar Waxwings have been on the increase in N/NW
> Atlanta recently and
> today brought the first real wave. Perhaps around
> 250 birds filling the
> air all day long and giving one local Northern
> Mockingbird a full-time job
> defending its proprietary holly. I have not seen any
> with orange tail tips
> or, as I dare hope very secretly, one with red
> undertail coverts... An
> update to my informal list of first influx dates for
> this area:
>
> Late Nov. 1998
> Early Dec. 1999
> Early Dec. 2000
> Nov. 9th 2001
> Jan. 30th 2003 (winter of 2002/3)
> Nov. 20th 2003
> Jan. 28th 2005 (winter of 2004/5)
> Dec. 8th 2005
> Jan. 19th 2007 (Winter of 2006/7)
>
> Waxwings are such beautiful birds. A few other,
> quick tidbits from the
> past two weeks or so, also from Atlanta:
>
> - Two Fish Crows, the first seen in quite a while.
>
> - A brief pass by two gulls, apparently Ring-billed
> Gull. Over the metro
> and away from habitat, I haven't seen gulls overhead
> in a long time. There
> seem to be fewer of them around than a few years
> ago.
>
> - A Winter Wren continues its residence outside my
> workplace.
>
> - Several groups of Eastern Bluebirds have made
> brief appearances, another
> species I don't normally see within the urban
> jungle.
>
> - Perhaps slightly more Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
> than usual.
>
> - Full songs by Song Sparrows, Pine Warblers and
> Northern Cardinals.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Eran Tomer
> Atlanta, GA
>
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