Good Morning! Lineatus is taking several weeks off from her Dawn Chorus host duties, but will hopefully be dropping by for a visit today. I am filling in with a diary about Orioles, or as my son calls them, Oreos or Cookie Birds.
Living in New Mexico all my life, I always thought Orioles were 'Somewhere Else." I had never seen one, and never expected to see one. It turned out they were all around me, I just never looked in the right places.
Then five years ago I saw my first oriole. He was a brilliant orange and absolutely gorgeous male Bullock's. He was trying to drink from a hummingbird feeder, but the holes were too small.
Bullock's Oriole
I was hooked. I went out the next day and bought an oriole nectar feeder.
Since I saw that first Oriole, I've seen five different types, and discovered that there are Orioles in almost every part of the country. We don't see them often, because as a general rule, they spend their time at the top of tall trees.
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