[TN-Bird] wilson county migration?

From: "Jan" <dirtdiggerjan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 23:29:09 -0500
this evening (saturday) at about 6 oclock while waiting in the car for my son 
(the world's slowest shopper) to finish his tour of walmart in lebanon,  i saw 
a large flock of very fluttery birds swoop over the store and circle around to 
land in a bradford pear tree near my car.   i thought i recognized the little 
masked creatures but got out and walked over under their tree and sure enough 
it was about 50 cedar waxwings.  they all few away after about 4-5 minutes 
heading south southwest then about 5 minutes later a larger flock did the same 
thing (about 150 i'd guess).  after they flew away (usually when someone nearby 
loudly closed a car door) i soon noticed about 200 of them lined up side by 
side by side along the front edge of the roof of the store-amazing sight-they 
left about 1/2 inch between themselves.  soon they all flew to the pear tree 
and left at the usual time-about 4 minutes later.  this phenomenon continued at 
consistent intervals til nearly 7 pm and in all i'd estimate there were 
approximately 3000 of them.  every time they flew off to the SSW.  the only 
time i've ever seen flocks of them before in my lifetime was outside my lab 
window where i was working in dallas TX so i have to assume these birds were 
possibly on their way to "big D".  i don't know that much about birds yet but 
it surely was a migration of the cedar waxwings otherwise i don't think there 
would have been so many, all doing the same thing, for such a long time.  i 
thought it was completely fascinating!
jan donaldson 
watertown, TN
wilson county
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