We had some mostly on Crabapples, but also in our Serviceberry and Elderberry bushes.
Heather Weber-Langvardt Wild Birds Unlimited #023 3350 N Union Blvd Colorado Springs, CO 80907 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Store: 719-596-1819<tel:+17195961819> Cell: 719-377-2966<tel:+17193772966> ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 8:01:38 AM To: Colorado Birds <[email protected]> Subject: [cobirds] Re: Bohemian Waxwing diet At our home in NW Denver (Berkeley Park) we have a dozen blue velvet honeysuckle bushes. This late winter we've observed flocks of robins, cedar waxwings, and Bohemian waxwings feeding on the small dried berries of these plants. Bill Killam On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 9:56:30 AM UTC-6 DAVID A LEATHERMAN wrote: The other day I asked COBIRDS participants to please let me know if they had seen Bohemian Waxwings during the current invasion eat anything other than crabapples, Rocky Mountain juniper cones (berries), common buckthorn fruits and Russian-olives. The response has been wonderful and here are some new things you have added to our understanding of their diet while in Colorado: *Kathy Mihm-Dunning observed them at fairly high elevation eating kinnikinnick fruits (which in botanical terms are a "berry-like drupes"). *David Suddjian observed a courting pair passing a Siberian elm flower bud back and forth, which almost certainly one of them, likely the female, ate. *John Garing and Janice Hill sent me pics that show them eating green ash flower buds. This is something I have seen Cedar Waxwings do and is yet one more instance of the diets of these two species, at least in North America, being almost identical. *Judd Patterson saw them "make quick work of" old rotten apples both in the tree and on the ground in Fort Collins. Bohemian Waxwings probably eat fruits of other woody plants like mountain-ash, hawthorn, snowberry, etc., but so far no reports of which I am aware. Thanks to everybody who shared on this topic. Lots to learn and what's more fun than that? The current buzzphrase is "citizen science" which is what used to be called "bird watching". As Duke's retired basketball Coach K says in a current Aflac commercial, "Who needs championships, when you can watch birds." Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/783c665b-440b-4d7e-965f-ed7c98a7c336n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/783c665b-440b-4d7e-965f-ed7c98a7c336n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/PH0PR14MB52253F297270B5C786076BE0F0879%40PH0PR14MB5225.namprd14.prod.outlook.com.
