Cedar Waxwing

©James Hendrickson

Published: March 5, 2007

James Hendrickson saw this Cedar Waxwing eating icy berries in New Jersey.

A winter storm left the berries coated in ice, but this hungry waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) was popping them off the bush and catching them in mid-air at the Colliers Mills Wildlife Management Area near Lakehurst, New Jersey. James Hendrickson of New Egypt, New Jersey, used a Nikon D70 digital SLR and a Sigma 500mm lens to take the picture, which shows the berry a split-second before the waxwing gobbled it down.

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