Great shot Suan! Pete Sar On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 11:23 PM Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- 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/ --
