There were no happy birds in my yard on a warm spring day last week. On Friday I watched them flitting around my neighbor’s yard...

Soon after I started working on a post focused on invasive nandina (Nandina domestica), I went down a rabbit hole and ended up in a slightly different place after I learned about the direct impact two non-native berries have on Cedar Waxwings; one of the few birds with a diet almost exclusively consisting of berries and small fruit. Waxwings are a good example of multiple ways wildlife can be negatively influenced when invasive plants replace native plants. Cedar Waxwings des