Yesterday, in addition to a mini-flock of robins in the tree, I saw 4 of the most beautiful birds EVER. And I have no idea what they were.
They had a body that was similar to a female cardinal – tall, thin and with the cresty-mohawk feathers on top – but with yellow bellies and dramatic black “masks” around their eyes. Very dainty but fierce. And there were 4 of them, all the same, in the tree. Perhaps a family of young’uns returning?
I need to find my bird book and dig through it until I figure out what kind of birds they are – since my powers of explanation, obviously, aren’t going to help me Google this one.
If I can get a picture, I totally will – maybe one of you knows what they are?
EDITED: And, after a quick perusal of my ancient copy of “Birds of North America” (copyright 1966), I have identified them as Cedar Waxwings! (I feel really smart right now. Really, really smart.) Aren’t they pretty?
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Oh my goodness, SO pretty! Maybe you could come down my way and identify the trees outside our window? I have some beat-up old guide books but they aren’t helping. Or possibly I don’t know how to read them.
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She is gorgeous!!
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Robins? You saw Robins? See I thought I saw one last week too, but I didn’t have my contacts in yet and I decided that I was wrong, that it was too early. Maybe I did see one after all.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! You KNOW how much I love BIRDIES!!!! (and as the late great Angela would have said, “Am, if you want to be taken seriously as a birdwatcher, you will have to stop calling them birdies!”) That is cute possibly the cutest bird I have ever seen, with the exception of my Pingu last night, preening the fine hairs on my cheek!
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Definitely one of the most beautiful birds ever to fly the earth. When I lived in Little Rock, a flock of these came through each March and stopped at my bird bath and also stripped my cedar tree of little blue berries. Maybe this bird was one of them.
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