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[rootofnewt]

A very distinctive looking bird perched on the pokeweed long enough for me to memorize its description. Then I went to look it up. It fit the description of a cedar waxwing *perfectly* except its tail feathers were tipped with a ruddy orange, rather than a vivid yellow.

Crap. It took me awhile, but I learned that it *IS* a cedar waxwing, and its feathers are orange b/c it has been eating non-native (alien) honeysuckle.

WOOHOO!

we done got ourselves birds who been eatin' alien plants! yeeehah!

Oh, the nuthatches finally made an appearance. They like the suet feeder. YAY!

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I was told by the previous owners of the house I'm in that sometime in February hordes of these birds will descend on the tree out front (I forget what she said it was, a mountain ash maybe?) and devour the huge clusters of red berries hanging all over it. She said it takes about a day and half to strip the tree, and then they move on.