(04-16-2020, 07:26 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Yesterday my wife called me over to her office window, and there was a flock of maybe a hundred or more Cedar Waxwings all over our Japanese Plum trees, eating those little yellow plums.  They cleaned those things off, and then they all got on the ground and ate the ones that had dropped.  We also saw Orioles on those trees.  Really beautiful birds.  They were on those trees for hours.  Those birds must be headed back north.

Nice! 

Did you happen to see where a northward migration of millions of birds was flying over the FL keys and triggered the national weather radar as a large body of precipitation? Pretty cool. 

https://www.tampabay.com/news/environmen...-key-west/

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Every early Spring I have a wacky bird event on my property. There are two giant camphor trees on the lot and another quite large one. Shortly after we've had a few frosts and it's just BARELY starting to warm up, the robins come through to get absolutely hammered eating the slightly fermented camphor berries. At times there will be easily 300-400 birds in these three huge trees squawking, gorging, and flying very erratically from tree to tree and branch to branch.
It's like my yard becomes a giant rowdy beer hall for birds. 

Occasionally the hawks get hip to the sheer number of them (and their inebriation) and they'll pick off an easy lunch of drunk robin. Then the flock gets really loud and they awkwardly try to relocate. This  gorging will last several days some years.

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