Would you describe your oriole feeder in more detail please? I impaled a half orange on a screw through a piece of cedar attached to the top of one of our feeders in the yard, but haven't seen any visitors (or peck marks) in a few days, though one or two BAORs are actively singing and moving around the trees. Maybe they want expensive blood oranges? (:-)
Thanks. ChrisP On 20130513, at 13:05 , Bill Mcaneny wrote: > The best watching this a.m. is from our kitchen window. A Red-Tailed Hawk > just flew thru the side yard pursued by a Male Cardinal (At least one pair > nests next to the house.) The female cardinal sat complacently beneath the > platform feeder with the song and chipping sparrows and a chipmunk. Earlier > this a.m. a Cooper's hawk flashed thru the yard in pursuit of a Red-Bellied > Woodpecker. The woodpecker escaped, although its heart rate must have soared > just shy of a seizure. The Cooper's then sat in the big tree in the back > yard, waggled its tail for a minute or so and then was escorted off the > property by 2 male Redwings (brave birds to chase a hungry accipiter). > > Shirley put out fresh pieces of orange for the Orioles, plus fresh jelly > (today they get blueberry). Also fresh sugar water for the Hummer. A crow > sat beneath the suet feeder for a while gleaning the scraps left by the usual > 3 species of woodpecker. No little migrants today but maybe the hawks have > kept them in hiding. > > Bill McAneny, TBurg > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- ______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
