I've seen waxwings passing fruit among themselves in the spring several times, but was luck to capture this photo once of a pair exchanging crabapples: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQmq_i-tfWo/
Suan On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:24 PM Richard Guthrie <richardpguth...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Stokes' on Cedar Waxwings passing fruit amongst their neighbors: Years > ago at a NYS Federation annual meeting (now NYS Ornithological Association) > I attended a presentation by Don and Lilian Stokes and there they did a > little enactment of waxwings sharing cherries with one another - including > a few little side-stepping hops to illustrate the behavior. It was cute > (yeah, a little hokey). But it suggested to me that they were conveying > that behavior as fact. > > And, yes, I've seen waxwings flycatching many times. I think it's an > opportunistic reaction to an aquatic insect hatch. > > Rich Guthrie > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 7:13 PM Linda Orkin <wingmagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have seen Cedar Waxwings do this quite a few times also. At beebe lake >> and flat rock. I was also surprised the first time. Very cool to feel like >> you discover this yourself by keen observation. I also saw them one time in >> my black cherry passing cherries along the branch to each other. Which >> Donald and Lillian Stokes say is just a myth but I saw it with my own eyes. >> >> Linda Orkin >> Ithaca, NY >> >> >> > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
