31 Replies to “Photoblogging”

  1. Kate,
    How lovely.
    I, too, saw a flock of trilling Cedar Waxwings up close today in the Okanagan.
    I love those flying patterns of beauty.
    Nice capture.
    Not that they could ever be truly captured.
    Is that an analogy?
    God bless SDA.

      1. And I think that you’re right!

        We get cedar waxwings here in south-central Iowa. Their bellies are somewhat yellow, and they don’t have white or yellow markings on their wings.

        1. At first I thought they were Cedar Waxwings too. We get them here on south Vancouver Island during the summer months. But the colours are not exactly what I’ve seen on a Cedar Waxwing? But then I’ve only seen them up-close using binoculars.

  5. Kate Igo through 15kg of food every two weeks feeding the birds,so popular with the feathered friends now there are turkeys hanging out. post script. blue Jays are bully boys. They take the food home.

  7. Great photos, which brings back a special memory for me.

    Many years ago, on a cold January day, I happened to be on the University of Alberta campus. I was walking through a part where there were a number of mountain ashes and those trees were filled with waxwings.

    Clearly, they were after the berries and they were enjoying themselves. (Waxwings….. frozen berries….. I wonder why, eh?) I’m sure a lot of them slept quite well that night.

        1. Hey, BA, like them waxwings, who hasn’t been blotto on the U of. A campus that attended the quad in winter with waxwings and fermented substances.

        2. Had a woodchuck that would get all tippsy over in the fall on the plums fermenting. Always wanted to get gassed with the little thing.

  10. Absolutely stunning Kate, the waxwings love the Mountain Ash berries.
    We have a pair of pheasants hanging around our acreage.
    They seem to be getting along with the sparrows and chickadees.

  11. Kate’ I come to your site multiple times a day and share you with my friends (whether they like it or not) with of course, a H/T. BTW, I sent $100 for Freedom, via GiveSendGo – it’s for all of us and I hope others will do so too.

    I’m retired, a master of photographic arts with PPOC and a national print judge. One of the way we score prints is by initially according a print 100 points and then deducting for things that were technical and/or artistic issues. These are really nice. One of the things that’s really important for a good image is what I call ‘easily digestible’. Simple. Crisp. Your DoF is great and the softness and gradients of the tones are terrific – technically great and those little dabs of colour make a great counterpoint, adding visual interest. Well done!

  12. My dear Kate,
    Just what I needed to calm down after reading so, so many posts on the fractious convoy coverage.
    1) Thanks for the beautiful photographs, which were truly soothing. Especially the second one.
    2) Thanks for the continuing coverage of the events in Ottawa, Milk River, Coutts, Windsor… shall I go on? Which events have made some soothing necessary.

    I left Calgary for Houston just about 40 years ago. Did I leave 40 years too soon? I’ve regained some pride in my Canadian heritage due in large part to the titanium spines displayed by Canadian truckers, but in equal measure, by Canadian bloggers such as you who’ve kept the fight going when it might have seemed unwinnable. Thank you.

  13. Thank you Kate,
    We have a flock come through our property south of Calgary every fall, they get themselves totally intoxicated on the last of our Saskatoon berries and fly around like kamikaze pilots, usually at least one fatality every year unfortunately

  15. They visited us a few weeks ago and cleaned off the crabapple tree. It happened to be during a Chinook and there were some nice puddles on our garage roof. I was out but spouse got some really good videos of the waxwings all hitting the water for midwinter baths. Their wings were just a-going, and throwing water everywhere.
    Other years, they have come earlier, just after first frost, and we have had drunken birds flying haphazardly and hitting the windows. I used to joke that all the neighbourhood cats knew to come round on those days and just wait – jaws open – for “manna from heaven”.

  18. Gorgeous photos. I recently noticed that birds had built a nest in my clothes dryer exhaust. They are very creative.

  19. Beautiful! Even though we have lots of mountain ash, the darn robins have them cleaned off by the end of October. Nothing left for the wax wings. They don’t even come anymore.

  21. I once had a young Cedar Waxwing to care for after it collided with the garage. It was in no hurry to leave when it recovered . Had it for 3 or 4 days before it flew off. Probably crapped out a half liter of droppings in that time with me. It’s the size of a Robin but shits like an Eagle.

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