One of my favorite sounds of fall are the thin, high calls of cedar waxwings. A lot of people want to see them, dramatically adorned with black bandit masks, tails dipped in brilliant yellow and ...

Cedar waxwings are sleek, masked birds with unusual red, waxy deposits at the tips of their secondary feathers. They are cinnamon-colored, with grayish wings and tails and yellow terminal tail-bands.

It is at this time of year in southeastern Virginia, when the holly berries are turning a bright, waxy red that I start listening for that high-pitched whistle sound in the treetops. Then I know the ...

My neighbors have some kind of ornamental berry bush along the walkway in front of their house. While out walking the dog one cold, not-snowy, morning last week a large flock of cedar waxwings ...

A couple of weeks ago, on a warm, damp morning, I awoke to the sound of robins, at least a hundred of them, scouring the trees out back. They were calling, even singing fragments of their song on this ...

Right on the heels of last week's discussion of a cardinal in Roseau, Minn., comes a report of cedar waxwings in Thief River Falls. Cardinals and waxwings do have one thing in common. Both have crests ...