This is a season of visitors, so it was grand that Bohemian Waxwings arrived from afar to enjoy our local fare.
Most of the elderberries have been eaten, but there is still a good supply of rowan berries, aka, mountain ash, for the taking, and yesterday waxwings took advantage of them.
One waxwing holds a berry while another watches. Only a few berries were taken from the overwhelming feast.
Indeed, the birds would sit still in the sunlight without feeding for quite a while.
When a berry was taken, the bird would first manipulate it in its bill.
The low winter sunlight made for strikingly warm colours.
Merry Christmas! Beautiful photos for the day, and thank you for all the superb photos you post throughout the year!
Perfect Christmas photos. All the best in the New Year!
Although the timing was fortuitous, I liked the idea of posting them on a day people gathered around a bird garnished with red berries.
Thank you, Alistair, for the year long postings. I look forward to them, I learn from them and I enjoy the beauty of them. May 2014 be a great year for you.
Lois
Your photo’s are absolutely amazing!
I saw a flock of waxwings descend upon a cedar tree right outside the window where I was typing away on my computer. There must have been 100 or more, each vying for space on that tree. They looked like ornaments on a Christmas tree. As suddenly as they descended, after a quick bite, they flew away: the silence left in their passing was filled with a sense of awe within me! What beautiful creatures!