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Orange-tailed Cedar Waxwing Photo!



Folks,

As some of you might already know I`m legally colored blind. Well while on 
the Chapel Hill CBC on December 24th I saw a total of 369 Cedar Waxwings 
with the largest flock containing 250 birds.  My most common bird species 
on the count was Cedar Waxwing. I was only one party out of twenty parties 
on the count so we might have a huge number again this year.  I checked 
last years results and  the Chapel Hill CBC had 1177 waxwings about 12th in 
the nation.

I managed to take several photos, ok more than a roll of film 36 exposures. 
I shot till my arm was tired holding the camera with my 100 400 mm lens. 
Well as I reviewed my slides I found 2 that clearly show orange tips in the 
slides. I just about over looked these two slides as many of the other were 
much better and I was about to discard them.  The photos can be found by 
clicking the bird link at my site http://www.rlephoto.com Looks like the 
birding pages are coming together with photos of 5  NC rare birds and 16 
other birds in the birds gallery.

Randy L Emmitt
Nature Photographer focusing on birds, butterflies, dragonflies and 
wildflowers.