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set off, like a carnation in our buttonhole, by a touch of red in the wing,” Though anthropomorphic and perhaps having too much emphasis on “maleness,” that description comes close to describing the birds I saw eating apple blossoms many years ago in North Carolina and to the waxwings carefully picking off privet berries in the side yard.
It appears that the designer of waxwings was determined to make this bird different in every way possible. The creature is practically voiceless; the sound is a gentle hiss. A flock of waxwings does not migrate as other birds for their movements may be east and west as well as north and south.
Because the primary food of waxwings is berries of all kinds, the bird does not nest until late July and August when the world is full of the fruits of dogwood, honeysuckle, viburnum, holly, pyracantha, privet and cedar. Fivesixths of the waxwing’s diet is made up of berries. They even feed their young berries after an initial diet of regurgitated, partially digested insects, the one-sixth part of the diet. It is from the bird’s fondness for the blue fruits of the red cedar that the “cedar” part of
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