Birds and berries

Last Saturday morning was a remarkably good day for watching birds eat berries from trees. While even more birds were seen on that walk, shown are those that ate. Eating berries is clearly seasonal.

A late-season Cedar Waxwing is about to eat a blue elderberry. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.

Merely spotting a Downy Woodpecker makes for a good walk. Photo by Cynthia.

But watching it eat is better. Here it spreads its wing and leans down to get a berry.

The Downy Woodpecker picks a snowberry.

But, the nicest transient shot is that of a Crow and blue elderberry.