Exploring Nature: Cedar Waxwings

I can’t remember a better winter around my place when it comes to seeing birds.

So far, in the first month of the year, I have identified American robins by the dozens, plus cedar waxwings, a Carolina wren, a ladder- backed woodpecker, a house finch and a yellow-rumped warbler. Most all the action has been focused around my concrete birdbath in the backyard and at a blackoil sunflower seed feeder and a hanging suet block.

My year-round Carolina chickadees and black-crested titmice are also still in regular attendance.