Found a Cedar Waxwing today that might have been drunk, probably by eating fermented Cleveland Pear fruit. I thought that sitting in the neighbors driveway was probably not the best place for it to sober up, so I moved it to our backyard. Spent a few minutes taking pictures of it until it was recovered enough to fly into a tree and recover. One of the signs that it may have been inebriated was that it bit me when I put it on the tree branch.
Haha, a drunk bird. Poor guy. It makes me wonder if any animals ever seek inebriation. Or can tell the the fruit is fermented? Maybe he was too hungry to care.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, looking forward to more pictures of the yard as it blooms.