Cedar Waxwing on Barbed Wire Fence

A Cedar Waxwing landed on the barbed wire fence and watched us, when we stopped at the side of the gravel road to watch ducks on a pond and several tiny distant Red Crossbills feeding in hot road stones. 

This Waxwing is missing the red wing tips some Cedar Waxwings sport. A juvenile? Or simply a bird with no red tips? 

Roadside Cedar Waxwing  © SB

What is this bird? Cedar Waxwing

Location: Eagle Butte Road, SW Alberta, just north of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park (Alberta and Saskatchewan).

Photo dates:  July 30, 2012.  

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Cedar Waxwing Calling: Anybody Out There?

Cedar Waxwing © SB 

Condie Nature Refuge:  One Cedar Waxwing called from the top of a drowned tree along Boggy Creek.

See, see, see.

It waited. No bird answered. It flew away.

What is this? A Cedar Waxwing, a fairly common prairie bird. 
Location: Condie Nature Refuge, near Regina, Saskatchewan.
Photo Date: September 3, 2011.

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