The Cedar Waxwing 
Taken at Los Colibris 
Photo by the Author 
CEDAR WAX WINGS EN FLOCK 
value is low, enormous quantities must be consumed. Cherries come in 
for a share of attention, enough to merit for this Waxwing the name of 
Cherrybird in the northern states; but it may be asserted emphatically 
that by reason of its absence from the State during the cherry season, the 
bird does no harm in California. Mr. John G. Tyler, of Fresno, reports 1 a 
winter company of Waxwings which formed the habit of eating raisins, 
resorting daily for this purpose to the culm piles of “Raisin Row.” On the 
neighboring buildings they would remain “motionless for an hour at a 
time, perched with almost military precision along the edge of the roof, 
suddenly to become an animated mass of hissing, excited birds that greedily 
scratched and tore through the piles of stems in search of the few raisins 
that still adhered thereto.” In this frantic search a few were over-lucky, 
for Mr. Tyler knows of several birds which choked to death trying to 
swallow raisins too big to go down. 
*C. O. C. Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 9, p. 94. 
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