[TN-Bird] Re: Bobmycillid bonanza and milestones
- From: Duane Rice <drbirdsong4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <david-aborn@xxxxxxx>, <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:31:44 -0600
We had a record number (over 1,200), of Cedar Waxwings on our CBC here in
Clarksville, Tennessee, on 1/3/09.
I'm so glad they're thriving. They're one of my favorite birds.
dr> From: David-Aborn@xxxxxxx> To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [TN-Bird]
Bobmycillid bonanza and milestones> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:48:56 -0500> > 12
January 2009> Hamilton County> > TN-Birders:> > Forgive my scientific
reference, but it had a nice ring to it. Bombycillidea> is the family to which
Cedar Waxwings belong, and at Greenway Farms this> morning I was inundated with
them. I banded 53 in all; 26 of them in 1 net> (a new single net record)! Those
waxwings also helped set a record for most> birds banded in a singe day out
there (72), and pushed the total number of> birds I have banded at Greenway
Farms over 1,500 (1,534) and the total> number of birds I have banded in the
Chattanooga area over 2,000 (2,052)> > Another interesting waxwing observation
was that some of the birds had> orange tips to their tail feathers instead of
the typical yellow coloration;> something I had not seen before. As it turns
out, that comes from eating> berries of the introduced Japanese honeysuckle. If
they eat those berries> while the tail feathers are growing, the tips become
orange, not yellow. You> learn something new everyday!> > David Aborn>
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