Date: 5/2/25 7:41 am From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: [birders] FOY Oriole
Just arrived! Also two Male Hummers chasing each other around the feeder. The Oriole seems perplexed…or relaxed or just burned-out. He’s been sitting on the long horizontal branch that supports all my dangling Paracord in front of the bay window for fifteen minutes. I think the first arrivers get a big kick out of knowing they won the race. It probably gives them huge advantages in mate selection and territory establishment. He hit the jelly as soon as he arrived and (I think) is just realizing his long journey is over, taking in the surroundings and trying to square his thoughts with what he remembers last August. The whole way back they cross rivers and cities and farm-fields with images of home and the magical bottomless sources of purple delight. Each beak-full the energy equivalent of a hundred blooms. He’s already looked in the window at Linda and I and the cat…all familiar faces to him perhaps. A glistening bit of translucent nourishment still clinging to his beak. Remarkable creatures.
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