This morning, we were pleasantly surprised to find two Orchard Orioles frequenting our back yard flowering quince. Later, the male was heard singing from various trees in our yard. Details below:
8 Etna Lane, Tompkins, New York<x-apple-data-detectors://0>, US May 18, 2020 7:29 AM Protocol: Incidental 1 species Orchard Oriole 1 Female. Foraging in our back yard flowering quince. First noted unfamiliar repeated series of rapid “chuck-chuck-chuck” or “chut-chut-chut-chut” notes. Then a bird near the source calls flew out and into the top of our side yard honeysuckle bushes. With binoculars in hand, briefly observed this bird as being a yellow oriole with two noticeable white wing bars. The bird quickly flew towards the trees in the front yard and was lost sight of. The sounds were very different than the rattles and alarm calls of the Baltimore Orioles which have been frequenting our oranges and Concord grape jam feeders. We have had upwards of 9-10 different BAORs simultaneously coming to our feeders. Although, it has been notably quiet so far this morning, outside of a couple of heard BAOR calls and whistled songs. View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S69255654 8 Etna Lane, Tompkins, New York<x-apple-data-detectors://0>, US May 18, 2020 7:49 AM - 7:52 AM Protocol: Stationary 2 species Orchard Oriole 2 1st year male with black chin patch and female flew out of back yard flowering quince and up into Norway Spruce tree. 1st year male seen well, briefly. Heard repeated “chut-chut-chut” alarm notes. Baltimore Oriole 1 View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S69255941 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home) Sincerely, Chris T-H Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
