Cedar waxwings migrate through here in spring. We have lots of America Holly trees and the waxwings will eat the bottom 1/3,then the middle and finish off the top 1/3 on the third day. However this year the mast crop is down and the robins and squirrels have eaten most of the berries so the waxwings won't stay long. We have a rental home with a large mulberry and when I was working on it in May there were maybe 50 waxwings on that tree twice that was eating the black berries. I don't know if they migrated late or if they live close enough to return to this tree. This is a mulberry that produces black berries. I have never seen them on a red mulberry and they grow freely in this area. I have seen them migrating maybe 8 times in the 39 years we have lived here. I do see them in the summertime in W.Va. at elevations of 3500' or more.

Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.