| What's Inside for 2011 Cover: Eastern Screech Owl January: Merlin February: Carolina Wrens March: Little Blue Heron April: Common Grackle May: Piping Plover June: Red-bellied Woodpecker July: Cedar Waxwing August: Pectoral Sandpiper & Semipalmated Sandpiper September:
Snowy Egret & October: Black-throated Blue Warbler November: Bufflehead December: Eastern Screech Owl Back Cover: All |
Twelve 4"x6" glossy photographs of birds from the Northeast of North America
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July 2011: Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedorum) Cedar Waxwings nest a bit later than most songbirds. I found this one nesting in the sumac of Seapoint beach in Kittery Point, Maine. Earlier in the season she and her mate affectionately fed each other berries from the honeysuckle bushes. Often taken for just another drab brown bird, up close there's something about their silky blend of cinnamon to lemon yellow breasts, crested heads, masked face, and the red waxy droplets on their wings that captures the imagination. Their calls are a high pitched jingly trill, often heard on the wing. © Copyright Phillip Augusta. All rights reserved. |
