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Posted: Apr/27/2009 4:12 PM PST
The migration tracker has been showing oriole sightings all over the upper midwest the last few days. I've been a little frustrated because my feeder remained untouched. That changed this afternoon when I looked out the window and saw a bright orange male oriole perched on the feeder, eating grape jelly. What a brilliant-looking bird. Maybe I can see a hummer one of these days, too. Update: This oriole must be ridiculously hungry. He has been hanging out in my yard for 90 minutes. I think he already ate most of the grape jelly and he has been devouring the orange half off/on for 20 minutes. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Apr/27/2009 5:58 PM PST
What a beautiful bird. |
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Posted: Apr/28/2009 3:42 AM PST
Gasp! Oh, I wish we had them. I don't think they come to my part of this glorious world. |
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Posted: Apr/28/2009 9:48 AM PST
The oriole has been back to the feeder a few times this morning(he just showed up again as I began typing), although the visits have been much shorter than yesterday. I'm really hoping to see a few others drop by over the next couple weeks. Last year I saw three even though I didn't buy the feeder until later in May. |
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Posted: Apr/28/2009 7:13 PM PST
Nice picture. Guess i need to start putting out the grape jelly. |
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Posted: Apr/30/2009 7:45 PM PST
After visiting my feeders at least once an hour for two days, my oriole is gone. I did not see him at all today. Unfortunately, my mistake may have led to him leaving so soon. I put the feeders in the garage overnight because of rain. I set my alarm so I could wake up while it was still dark and get the feeders back out. I misjudged how early it started to get light and I got out of bed later than I wanted as well. I got the oriole feeder out by 5:55am, but it was already somewhat light and I know the oriole was on the feeder eating jelly at 6:00am the previous morning. It's quite possible the oriole came to feed before I got the feeder up, saw nothing, and took off for good in search of food. I know from last year's experience and reading online sites that orioles will not sit and wait for food to become available. Instead, they will move on/search elsewhere for food and won't come back. It sucks that this year's first oriole(hopefully not the last) did exactly that. I really want to attact at least a couple more orioles. I'm disappointed I've only had the one this week, but I have to remember that tomorrow is only May 1st. The migration tracker shows quite a few sightings down in Missouri the last couple days and I assume some of them will continue northward. If another week or two go by with no more visitors I'll be extremely disappointed. |
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Posted: May/01/2009 3:30 AM PST
Oh, what a shame. Well, just leave it out next time. He'd probably drink the grapey water. |
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Posted: May/18/2009 11:33 AM PST
I just spotted a female baltimore oriole in my tree. She flew across the yard a couple times, but did not stop at any of the feeders. |
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Posted: May/18/2009 4:14 PM PST
The female oriole just came to the jelly feeder. I hope there is a male in the area, too. A guy who routinely submits data to ebird.org, and who lives about five miles to my nnw at the edge of the city, has reported several orioles each day over the past week. Earlier in May he only had one or two. A stretch of much warmer weather is now arriving here so that should help. |
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Posted: May/19/2009 6:13 AM PST
Wow. Three baltimore orioles just came to my feeder. There was one female(probably the same one at the feeder yesterday) and one male for sure. I think the third one was also a male. This is great. I got one male for a couple days back at the end of April, but after seeing nothing since then I was beginning to worry I might not see any others this year. 
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