This afternoon I was treated to a delight, as I quietly watch through binoculars from my sun room, a flock of birds of a species I've never notice before, thoroughly enjoying themselves at a birdbath located my back yard.
A very lively as well as skittish bunch,
with marking obviously pathogonomic,
having made themselves easily found and researched by Internet.
Bohemian Waxwing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. A sleek bird, 18–21 cm long with a pointed crest, it travels in large, nomadic groups with a strong, direct flight. It breeds in coniferous forests throughout the most northern parts of Europe, Asia and western North America. As the Cedar Waxwing inhabits only North America and the Japanese Waxwing only Asia, the Bohemian Waxwing is the only member of this family whose range circumnavigates all the continents just below the sub-Arctic latitudes.
Like other waxwings, its diet consists primarily of berries supplemented by insects, especially during the breeding season.
This species is irruptive, moving in unpredictable migration patterns from year to year, and particularly moving south, often in huge numbers, if the berry supply fails in winter, often reaching as far as Great Britain and Ireland; large numbers appeared in both countries in the winters of 2011-2 and 2012-3. The largest irruption was probably that of 1946-7, caused by one of the most severe winters of the century: as many as 12,500 birds reached Britain.
Birds in winter can be quite confident around humans and will come into gardens for berry bushes and trees, a favourite being the rowan.
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Today is Good Friday.
Gustave Doré shows the Crucifixion of Jesus in his wood engraving from the year 1866.
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And the second solo turns toward the first solo...(?)
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Doesn't really matter any way the wind blows...(?)
If Jesus of Nazareth died becoming Christ going one way...
Why can't James Edward Avery, DVM
live...(?)
becoming anti-Christ going the other way?
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