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\"AdultAdult Cedar Waxwing and ripening serviceberries \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I imagine that over the next four or five weeks I’ll be sharing photos of birds and serviceberry shrubs quite often because the birds are starting to feast on the ripe, juicy berries. Yesterday I shared images of an immature MacGillivray’s Warbler perched in a serviceberry<\/span><\/a> and today I am sharing an adult Cedar Waxwing perched at the top of the same shrub taken on the same morning.<\/p>\n

The Cedar Waxwing didn’t appear to be on the shrub to eat the serviceberries because all it did was call and look around. Perhaps its young were also in the area. I could hear the waxwings flying over the area regularly. Two individual waxwings landed on the serviceberry shrub while I sat there photographing the birds that came in. This adult waxwing was more out in the open than the other waxwing was.<\/p>\n

The background in this photo is a distant, grassy hillside and typically at this time of the year that hillside would still be green but it has been so dry here that even the grasses in the high mountains are drying up. We could use a solid day of steady but gentle rain here in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

More birds from the ones I found and pointed out the same morning in the Wasatch Mountains<\/span><\/a> to be shared here in the near future.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good. Stay safe.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Cedar Waxwing photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cedar Waxwing didn’t appear to be on the shrub to eat the serviceberries because all it did was call and look around. 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