[Ontbirds]Ottawa Spring - Cedar Waxwings and Redwing Blackbird

[michael.broughton at servicecanada.gc.ca]

For a nice sign of spring (not that I don't enjoy the Bohemians that I've run into over the winter), but I ran into a small flock of about 15 Cedar Waxwings happily gorging themselves in a crabapple tree on Castlfrank Road just south of Hazeldean road as I was picking up my daughter from her sitter. Naturally, as this is the one time I run into them when they didn't seem to mind me being within a couple of feet of them as the tree abutted the driveway - I was without my camera. 

I also caught a quick glimpse of my first Redwing Blackbird in the vicinity of the Rideau Tennis Club at Riverain park yesterday. Now that the city has cleared the ice from the river, I expect that the bird counts will start rising significantly along the Rideau over the next couple of weeks.

Good birding all!
Mike