The Robins And Cedar Waxwings Are Here in February?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Since buying our home 5 years ago and starting a garden I’ve been trying to snap a good picture of a robin. Hasn’t happened yet, can’t even get close and my camera sucks at zooming in.

My office is in my home as a work from home online marketer and as I was returning from making a nice hot fresh coffee when I saw hundreds of birds fly into our yard and cover the shrubs along our property fence.

Many of them were robins which we don’t usually see until at least April. There were hundreds of other birds I thought were female cardinals but I looked online to see what they were and it turns our they are Cedar Waxwings. They are completely new to me but a beautiful bird.

They were all taking full advantage of all the red berries on the bushes and were stuffing their little faces for all they were worth. I even saw robins eating snow which I’ve never seen before as there is usually lots of water when they return in April.

Being Stealthy Didn’t Work

I thought I could get a better picture if I went out side but they just took off and left me standing in the cold. Next I hid behind our garden shed and waited but they knew I was there and didn’t come back. Well not until I closed the door to the house again. Smart birds.

I did get a few pictures from my office window but it has a screen and hindered my picture taking. So please forgive the poor shots.

It’s been kind of tough getting any work done and I don’t want to close the blind so I decided to just take a break until they moved on or it got dark.

At one point I looked out they were all gone. I couldn’t see a single bird. They departed as quickly as they arrived. So I was able to start writing this little post to share my fun with you.

Then I realized they had just moved from the shade to the sunny south side of our property where the garage blocks my view of the yard. Such a great day.

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Tagged with: Cedar Waxwings • robins