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Originally Posted by Airedale1
"...Cedar Waxwing taken in Meredith across from town docks.
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Last week, I heard a Cedar Waxwing overhead, but couldn't see it. (The sound is a weak, high-pitched "seet").
Later, right near the water, I saw a female Cedar Waxwing pulling at something in branches: looking closer, I watched the same action repeated, and then saw the bird was picking off spiders
on the web! 
Some spiders were reluctant to depart their webs, and had the Cedar Waxwing pulling strongly—
in reverse! 
But by the time the Cedar Waxwing left, there were no spiders to be seen—where once, there had been many.
I always wondered why birds (or bats) didn't choose the morsels that were "right in front of everybody".
