[EBB Sightings] Cedar Waxwings

Folks:

The book is online at http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/  Look under the Pacific 
Coast Avifauna series.  You can download the book as a pdf file.

For what it's worth, in Santa Clara County, we nearly always have a few 
birds lingering into the first week in June and May birds are 
expected.  Those birds that occasionally nest extralimitally, such as in 
Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, likely laid their eggs in the first 
or second week of May, which is unusual.  Within the species' normal range, 
there are few egg records prior to 1 Jun.

Bill

At 11:52 AM 5/5/06, Hugh Harvey wrote:
>It seems it happens every year, folks wondering about the Cedar Waxwings.
>This is what Grinnell and Miller say, in their 1944 book The Distribution of
>the Birds of California,  page 376:
>"Status--Summer resident of limited area of northwest; breeding population
>sparse.  Widespread winter visitant, but irregular in local occurrence and
>numbers from year to year, and within any one season.  Although there is a
>north-south direction to the annual movements of the species as a whole,
>individuals and flocks may be essentially nomadic.  On the basis of
>aggregate numbers in the State, common, or in some years even abundant.
>Occasional stragglers may be found on wintering grounds between early June
>and late September when species normally absent, although none reported in
>July."
>Based on their studies, I would say that Cedar Waxwings are doing now what
>they have pretty much always done, that is hang around until late spring.
>We may have prolonged it slightly by having more trees and bushes with
>berries.
>The Save Mono Lake Committee and the late David Gaines reprinted this book
>in 1986.  Publisher information inside the book is as follows:  Artemisia
>Press, P.O. Box 119, Lee Vining, CA 93541.  At the time it was $18.00 for a
>soft cover edition.  It may no longer be available.
>Hugh B. Harvey
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