Perhaps I am not very observing but for the first time I see the female Baltimore Oriole or it may have been the Orchard Oreole having a feast drinking the hummers nectar that I serve.
Another funny and new to me occured this morning. As I was taking a picture of one of my flowers that is right under the Hummer's feeder, she came and was very annoyed with me, round and round she buzzed me and almost sat on my head, she finally gave up as I began to move. Few minutes later she was back having her breakfast.
Hummer's Food
Hummingbirds are so cheeky sometimes. Nomatter how familiar I get with mine, I'm always surprised when they buzz right past my head. Sometimes I think they're just plain nosey and want to see what we're up to.
They are fiesty troublemakers GW!
Marie, I would like to see an oriole someday. Never seen one up close and personal, only in pictures.
We had one waaay up in the top of our huge sycamore tree a couple of years ago. I heard it calling and then saw the flash or deep orange and black. It stayed up high, never came down to visit, and left the same day. We were so hoping it would come back - even bought an oriole feeder. All THAT did was attract bees and yellowjackets, so it was relegated to the basement until it finally got cracked and made its way into the trash.
I try so hard to avoid getting into bird watching. Don't need another passion. Now you guys have to bring up orioles! ;-)
I'll try to take a picture of an oriol next spring, John, they love it around blooming trees, such as apple or cherries. I used to hang an orange on a tree, they love picking at it, try that, GW. Since I moved to the new house I hadn't thought about that which I can't understand since I always did it.
Maria
I will be looking for that oriole picture, Maria. Post it in this thread. It will stay on my watch list!
John
Here is a pic I took this summer of a Oriole.
Oh, isn't that something! Earlier this spring I was able to observe a pair of yellow and black birds flying in & out of cover too fast for me to get a good look. I'd like to think they were Orioles. I don't know if Orioles even come to North Texas. I haven't seen birds like them before or since. Much obliged, Sandy!
Sandy, it's a wonderful pictire of an immature Baltimore Orial, . As the get older they are flame-orange, always flying to the top of trees, I love their song, you know right away who it is without even seeing him/her. In the old house where we don't leve anymore, from a second floor bedroom I could almost reach out and touch them as they were perched in a maple tree. Too bad I did not have a dig. camera at that time.
Maria
The only time that I have seen an Oriole it wasn't in Texas, but in Oklahoma up at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, it was in the fall, when they migrate through ....
There are feeders for Orioles that (I think) are filled with jelly, (or is it in fact, nectar?)
Jelley, I think. :-)
It may be Jelly, John, but I think it is nectar, They have feeders simular to Hummers for nectar. I hang a half of an orange on a tree, they love it.
PS, John, I see you have not read GM apron????It is your turn!!!! :-))
Maria
Same difference, actually. :-)
I'll have to try 1/2 orange just in case one migrates through here.
Will they come to a hummer's feeder?
See ya' at GM thread a little later, Maria!
That was my line of thread, John!
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