re: #112 Decatur Deb

We got the Evening Grosbeaks every year or so. (Herman, PA north of PGH.) They’re very pretty, but the Cedar Waxwings were more subtle. Once we banded an albino Waxwing, but it had poor liklehood of survival in the wild.

I don’t recall seeing Cedar Waxwings in northern NY. They were around Philadelphia* and I see them here north of Pittsburgh. Here they (surprise) like the cedar tree next to the apartment building. And there is a decorative crabapple(?) tree here that fruits by mid-June and it draws a flock of them as well.

* - A group of Cedar Waxwings along the Schuylkill River I swore checked which lens was on my camera before they would appear. If the 55/300 lens was there they would hide, but would come out if the standard lens which was not as good for bird pictures was there.