People who pay attention to birds come to love the changing seasons, and have favorite moments in the world of birds that mark the calendar in their minds with days of celebration. Many devout bird…
People who pay attention to birds come to love the changing seasons, and have favorite moments in the world of birds that mark the calendar in their minds with days of celebration. Many devout birders think of fall as the time for passing migrants: today may be the day when they see a rare warbler they will not see again for years.
Waxwings are primarily northern birds, with few breeding in California and those birds essentially restricted to the northernmost section of the state. In Marin, we see them mostly from September until May, when they roam over the county in search of berry-bearing trees, both native and ornamental. One pleasure I derive from waxwings is this sense of a secret splendor, a quite astonishing beauty that I know is right above my head, but which the uninitiated miss. I’ve shown their picture in presentations, hearing little gasps and oohs and ahs of appreciation from the audience, followed by comments that many of my listeners have never encountered this bird. I meet them nearly every week, because I am constantly listening for their presence.
I write this column from a park where a hundred-strong flock of waxwings is seething in the tree above my head. Seething is the word I mean — they are constantly in motion, like a turbulent sea trying to escape a rocky inlet, with birds swelling up to an outer perch to cling momentarily as they rest a berry free before receding to a more stable branch to finish devouring their find.
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