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Hi all. Now, I’m no bird expert, and today was a glasses day rather than a contacts day, so I wasn’t able to make quite the distinction I would liked to have made. But I did see quite the passel of waxwings early this afternoon – noonish, mostly, if not all, Cedars.
While walking through the north end of BYU’s campus, we spotted a ruby crowned kinglet, just west of the MOA (NE corner of main campus) and saw some juncos. But as we walked in between the ASB and MOA, I noticed quite a bit of activity in the trees just ahead. On closer examination, we saw lots – maybe 70-80 waxwings flying around in the fruiting trees that line the parking lots just north of between the two buildings. They seemed to be darting to the fruiting trees from some big pines that are nestled up close to the NE corner of the ASB. But as it was, I was just on a walk, no binoculars and with my glasses on and glare, I had hard time gauging size as they flew quickly around.
Anyway, maybe there are some Bohemians in there, but I couldn’t say. Also, about a week ago, I saw some waxwings up by the MTC – SE side along the road, but couldn’t do better than say they were probably Cedars.
In addition, on Sunday, my husband and I saw a Yellow-rumped Warbler (possibly two) along the Provo River trail, just east of the scary duck pond, darting over the trail and back. We also heard a Pine siskin fly over and trailed a female Belted kingfisher up the river.
Good birding! -Amanda Williams |