[TN-Bird] Re: Cedar Waxwing Movement

  • From: TigerWrblr@xxxxxxx
  • To: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:12:35 EDT

In a message dated 5/17/2004 7:44:04 AM Central Standard Time, 
OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx writes:
> May 15, 2004
> West TN
> All day Saturday from Lauderdale County to Lake County I was seeing flock 
> after flock of Cedar Waxwings streaming across the tree tops heading north. 
> Nancy 
> Moore and I had the largest flock at Champy Pocket on Reelfoot in the 
> afternoon with over 200 birds stopping briefly to forage in the cypress 
> trees.
> 
> Did anyone else experience such a movement or was this just a Mississippi 
> River or a phenomenon just behind the storm front?
> 
> 
> 

  Jeff and TN-Birders,

  At Shelby Bottoms here in Nashville,
there have been at least 400 to 500
Waxwings in the trees along the 
river the past few days. They show
up here in large numbers each year,
and stay until they strip all the berries
from the Mulberry trees.  

Phillip Casteel
Nashville, TN     

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