Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The Cedar Waxwings have been unusually cooperative. I really enjoyed watching this pair bounce around eating berries.

The one closest to us would pick a berry, hop over on the branch and give it to the other one.

The rest sat far above while these two had their intimate dinner.

I’m assuming they were a pair as they never got far from each other.

I was surprised to see an Oriole at my suet. I never knew they would come to suet, and I’ve never seen one in the neighborhood.

If you look really close the markings are a little different, so we must have at least two in the neighborhood.

As soon as I saw one I ran out and got an Oriole feeder and food.

The funny thing is, I keep seeing them eat the marmalade in the top, not the juice. But the juice does go down so they must be eating it too.

Sometimes we all need a helping hand. We shouldn’t be ashamed to accept one when it’s offered.
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So ok, you can’t see the water, he’s sitting on the edge of a bird bath in the first two photos, then he’s hoped up on one of those rocks in the bird bath to dry off. When he was actually bathing he was too short to see, I would have had to stand up and probably would have scared him off.

There’s nothing like wading into the ocean to dance with a bird!