Date: 5/2/25 7:48 am From: Mike Goethe <michael.goethe...> Subject: Re: [birders] FOY Oriole
We returned from a (disastrous) vacation Wednesday, and that afternoon I
heard oriole sounds in the yard. This morning I saw one male chase another
male away from our feeder. This is slightly early for our local orioles,
but we are thrilled to see them.
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Mike Goethe
Rochester Hills, MI
On Fri, May 2, 2025, 10:41 AM Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> wrote:
> 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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