{"id":8936,"date":"2020-07-28T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:51:05","slug":"cedar-waxwings-along-the-south-platte-river-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/cedar-waxwings-along-the-south-platte-river-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Waxwings Along The South Platte River Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While walking back to Reynold’s Landing on July 4th, a flock of Cedar Waxwings were busy in the Rabbitbrush. These colorful birds have tail feathers with yellow tips and some secondary feathers with a hint of red — that is the red “dot” in its wing. They have a really distinctive black mask and a crest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing On Rabbitbrush.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

These small birds, about 7 inches long, came pretty close to us, so they were relatively easy to photography. Also, they hung around the Rabbitbrush for a half-hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I like this bird, looking out from the bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing, No 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cedar Waxwing generally eat berries. However, in this image, the bird had caught a bug; the bug can be seen in its bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing, Caught A Bug.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here is another waxwing. There is one bird in the bush behind and another one (blurry) in flight in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing, No 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As we left the patch of Rabbitbrush, I noticed on Cedar Waxwing landing a nearby tree’s branch that served as a perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Waxwing, Landing On Perch.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The was a really fun experience to see the flock of all the Cedar Waxwings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While walking back to Reynold’s Landing on July 4th, a flock of Cedar Waxwings were busy in the Rabbitbrush. These colorful birds have tail feathers with yellow tips and some secondary feathers with a hint of red — that is the red “dot” in its wing. They have a really distinctive black mask and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1725,1723,1724,1020],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-cedar-waxwing","tag-rabbitbrush","tag-riverwalk","tag-south-platte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t