STILL Here!
Much to our delight, the Baltimore Oriole is still here!!! We see him almost every day, but getting shots of him is very tricky.
It's like he has superpowers to sense when one of us is at the "birdwatching" window, and will not fly over to the mealworm feeder if he sees us.
This afternoon, no too long after filling the mealworm feeder for a second time, we spotted him from the window over the kitchen sink. So, with camera in hand, I'm leaning over the sink, trying to get shots through the branches of the bush right outside that window. Then the Brown Thrasher flew up and chased the Oriole out of the feeder, so he perched in this Rose of Sharon tree for a few minutes, where I was able to get some shots that weren't feeder shots.
The Orioles that have shown up in the past usually left in early March, so this may have been our final sighting. Fingers crossed he'll stick around for another few days, but only time will tell.
STILL Here!
Much to our delight, the Baltimore Oriole is still here!!! We see him almost every day, but getting shots of him is very tricky.
It's like he has superpowers to sense when one of us is at the "birdwatching" window, and will not fly over to the mealworm feeder if he sees us.
This afternoon, no too long after filling the mealworm feeder for a second time, we spotted him from the window over the kitchen sink. So, with camera in hand, I'm leaning over the sink, trying to get shots through the branches of the bush right outside that window. Then the Brown Thrasher flew up and chased the Oriole out of the feeder, so he perched in this Rose of Sharon tree for a few minutes, where I was able to get some shots that weren't feeder shots.
The Orioles that have shown up in the past usually left in early March, so this may have been our final sighting. Fingers crossed he'll stick around for another few days, but only time will tell.