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Fw: Keep an eye out for waxwings with orange not yellow tail tips



Tom's observation on the Cedar Waxwings is interesting.  We saw a
similarly marked bird on the Pee Dee CBC.  I have no recollection of
noticing this kind of an aberration in the past.

Dick

Charles R. (Dick) Burk
Pinehurst, NC
crburk@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Krakauer <tkrakauer@mindspring.com>
To: <Carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: Keep an eye out for waxwings with orange not yellow tail tips


> This has bee frugivore week at home, and a flock of about 50 robins
and the
> same number of cedar waxwings as well as flickers , spasuckers and
> starlings mad short work of a dogwood that had been loaded with
berries.
>
> The robins moved on, but the waxwings are sticking around an drinking
at
> our "water feature".  Of the 50 waxwings two appear to have red/orange
> tailtips rather that the usual yellow.
>
> We had 2 male Yellow-shafter Flickers engaged in a protracted
agressive
> face-off.  They would sit about 1.5 bill lengths apart and not move.
If
> one made the slightest motion they both would engage in a raucous
> side-to-side waving of their heads (one each).  This went on for 20
> minutes.  The nearby female mas not impressed :).
>
> Tom
>
> Tom Krakauer
> Bahama, NC
> tkrakauer@mindspring.com
>