New yard bird, male RBGR. Bird is partly obscured in the photos but still identifiable.
Daily Archives: May 29, 2023
Re: Bullock’s Oriole
And I was seeing them on territory in Warm River (east of Ashton)
on May 8th.
Cliff
On 5/29/23 11:15AM, Peggy Wyman wrote:
It’s interesting that your Bullock’s Orioles are
just showing up. My first one this year was May 6th. I live just
south of Ammon in Idaho Falls area. About a week later I had
eight males in my flowering crab apple tree at the same time. It
was gorgeous. They’re eating me out of house and home with all
the grape jelly they eat. I’ll have to try strawberry jam too!
I haven’t seen any of them drinking from my hummingbird feeders
yet but one was checking it out this morning.
-- Cliff and Lisa Weisse Island Park, Idaho cliffandlisa@...
Re: Bullock’s Oriole
It’s interesting that your Bullock’s Orioles are just showing up. My first one this year was May 6th. I live just south of Ammon in Idaho Falls area. About a week later I had eight males in my flowering crab apple tree at the same time. It was gorgeous. They’re eating me out of house and home with all the grape jelly they eat. I’ll have to try strawberry jam too! I haven’t seen any of them drinking from my hummingbird feeders yet but one was checking it out this morning.
Re: Always Use the Binocs!
A satisfying sighting. Not much bird activity in my yard with resident Cooper’s Hawks nesting nearby.
Diann Stone Boise Depot Bench
Always Use the Binocs!
My last harbinger of Spring, this AM! A bird working & moving just a bit differently through a Russian Olive a bit ago. Binocs revealed a beautiful, male Western Tanager chasing down bugs among the leaves.
I don’t feel “complete” until I’ve seen BH Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting, Bullock’s Oriole & Western Tanager for my Spring arrivals. And, that’s usually the order of their arrival at my location.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot