Re: [SBB] Cedar Waxwings - Steven's Creek Trail

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

At 02:30 PM 5/29/05, [[email protected]] wrote:
> May 29 seems a bit late to me to be seeing CEDAR WAXWINGS in Santa Clara
> County, yet I saw a flock of at least 21 perched in a tree along the Steven's
> Creek Trail between the Crittenden and L'Avenida entrances, closer to the
> L'Avenida entrance this morning at about 10:30 a.m.   Every book I've 
> checked shows
> them as a winter species here rather than a yearround species.   Do some 
> flocks
> summer here?   If not, what is the latest date they've been reported?   Dotty
> Calabrese

May 29 is getting late for Cedar Waxwings--in many years few birds are 
found after the second or third week in May.  However, it is one of our 
latest wintering/migrant birds and in occasional years we have substantial 
flocks inot the first 10 days of June.  After that they are very rare and 
irregular.  They have nested once locally.  Interestingly, those birds 
probably laid eggs in the second week of May.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 

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