Canada: Country of the freshly migrated cedar waxwing
One of the most well-guarded nature secrets in Canada has to be the abundant and striking cedar and Bohemian waxwing birds. They show off a colorful design with a painted like tip of the wings that appear to have been dipped in hot wax, hence the name.
As for the cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) as seen in this footage, the wingtips are bright red and the tail tip is bright yellow. This beautiful bird that spreads across all North America feeds mostly on berries and hangs out in flocks of sometimes very high numbers. This footage was filmed on May 6th and 7th in Southern Quebec, Canada.
Trees in deciduous and broadleaf forests can sometimes be seen bearing hundred of these little holes that seem to have been made by an automated machine.
In a surprising display of the interaction between two different species in the wild, a [female ruby-throated] hummingbird is attracted to the freshly created sweet drink. It flies and hovers near it, sporadically plunging its tiny beak and visibly draining the content of the small holes. It comes in competition with a wide variety of bugs present in nature that are also attracted to the sugar-filled drink that begins leaking out of the tiny holes.
Returning sapsuckers also drink from the previously made holes while resting in place. They sometimes take advantage of the opportunistic tiny meals that are the careless ants walking around and straight to their death.
The extraordinary behavior displayed by the ruby-throated hummingbird to insure a proper diet can perhaps explain why so many nectar-drinking birds can thrive in an environment with a lack of it.
The footage was filmed in 4K Ultra High Definition in late August in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Immerse yourself in nature with this one hour 4K video compilation of Eastern Canadian forests in winter.
Featured in this video are birds in the wild in mixed and deciduous forests. Footage was filmed in Southern Quebec during the month of January in 4K UHD and include some of the following species:
Red fox showing snow-dive hunting technique in the wild
The footage shows a red fox hunting in the snow in the most southern part of the province of Quebec in Canada. … In a ”spur of the moment” display of opportunistic hunting, the fox catches a prey at mark 2:53.
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