[EBB Sightings] Cedar Waxwings in Montclair

Decided not to go photograph the Blue Grossbeaks on Patterson Pass today 
because of being woken  at  ~ 4am by an earthquake along the Hayward fault. 
Thought it was better to stick close to home. Just when I was wishing I 
had gone because of the flurry of bird activity that happens between the 
rains when fronts are moving rapidly and the diffuse light that happens, 
I looked up from my computer to see Cedar Wax Wings in the Holly tree 
outide our dining room window! I ran up to get my camera to be greated 
by 2 rather shy Band-Tailed Pigeons on the tree outside the back deck! 
The Wax Wings came and went only to come back with their friends 
totalling hundreds! till they demolished all the berries leaving hardly 
any for the Hermit Thrush that came. Definately was a great rainy day 
activity to practice my teleflash to freeze the flurry of activity in 
the woods that has low light in the cyn. behind our house.
Win Kryda
Montclair, Mountaingate and Castle
back yard faces Larry Lane which has a creak and lots of bird action!
Spring is here. Our female Grossbeaks are particularly plump and the 
males are rather stuning and singing quite beautifully. Robins eggshells 
are in the yard and Bewick's wren's are nesting in one of our bird houses.
So who needs to go to the canyons of AZ! when you live in CA!.....now 
all I need is a canyon wren.......