Lifting a large hand-sized serrated leaf, I could see a mom cedar waxwing sitting stock-still on a nest wedged between the thick vines of grape. I walked away and left her to keep the eggs warm.

The Cedar Waxwings feast on fruits and berries and can catch insects ... though only the female incubates the eggs for the required thirteen or fourteen days. Both parents feed the young who are ready ...

Cedar waxwings are one of the most beautiful birds ... If a cowbird female lays an egg in a waxwing nest, the youngster typically doesn’t survive because of the high-fruit diet they are fed.

This has important consequences, for the more waxy, older birds lay eggs earlier in the season, produce larger clutches, and fledge more chicks from the nest. Cedar waxwings feed on fruits of all ...

Cedar Waxwings are found in flocks throughout our ... There will be 1-2 broods from June to August with usually 3-5 eggs. Natural food sources run out in early to late spring.

I was surprised and pleased to identify it as a cedar waxwing, along with seven or eight others in its company. Cedar waxwings aren’t rare birds by any means but I’m more accustomed to seeing ...

NESTS: 4-6 blue-gray eggs spotted with brown and black in bulky ... flowering dogwood, holly, eastern red cedar, Japanese honeysuckle, Oregon grape, leatherleaf mahonia, pokeberry, cherry laurel ...

Cedar Waxwings are perhaps the most well groomed ... This is another species whereby when a cowbird deposits an egg in their nest, the cowbird chick dies in a few days as a result of not receiving ...

Researchers compared recent observations with century-old eggs preserved in museum collections. Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans /Chicago Tribune via AP Cedar waxwing eggs collected in 1897 in the Field ...