Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] What's the name of this bird?
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Jun 21 15:47:40 2007
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They used to flock into pepper trees in San Diego when I was a kid.
Then they would line up, dozens of them, on telephone lines and
proceed to crap repeatedly on all of the parked cars. As a child, we
called them "bomber birds", but Cedar Waxwing is the preferred name.
;-)

Jeffery

On 6/21/07, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Bohemian Waxwing, I think.
>
> We only get the Cedar Waxwings here, but they are marvelous birds.
>
> They are greedy little pigs when it comes to berries. Flocks have
> been found rolling around drunk on their little bird butts under
> mulberry trees when berries have fermented.
>
> Ric
>
>
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Joe Leung wrote:
>
> > Good Morning All,
> >
> >
> > I am not a bird watcher nor do I possess the knowledge and
> > equipment to photograph birds, but I want to know the name of this
> > colorful bird that frequented my back yard the last few days:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/joe+leung/IMG_3191_1_1.JPG.html
> >
> > I have been feeding Steller's jays with peanuts. Could this
> > activity attracted this lovely bird?
> >
> > Doug, David and others.. I am sure you can help. Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Joe Leung
> > Vancouver, BC, Canada
> >
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-- 
Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA

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