Cedar Waxwings are back!!! PHEW!

[elleng]

The collective nouns for a flock of this species are “ear-full” and “museum.” While such specialized collective nouns enrich language, flock is probably the most common collective noun for most bird species

[WhiteTara]

1. I hope that means that ours aren't far behind.

[SarahD]

2. I hate to see them

They eat all the cherries in about an hour. Greedy little bastards.

[2naSalit]

3. I love them!

I always listen for them in the spring. Once upon a time I lived in a cabin with several Siberian Elm trees that were infested with bark beetles. The summer after I moved in I landscaped the whole yard, they showed up and stayed for several weeks so they were there with me while I worked the yard all day. The group was huge, I got to watch their mating rituals in the trees, it's like the cartoons of old!, and I heard their little tweets in my ears at night when I fell asleep. It was a great summer, they ate every last beetle, I never saw another after that during the five years I lived there.

[elleng]

4. That's great, NATURE!

I didn't hear them today, but saw them when I opened my eyes (on the window) and a few times later, so grabbed my camera.

Haven't seen them for a few years, and was wondering where they were.