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Icterus spurius
A male, Baltimore Oriole coming to a tree stump for grape jelly
Our front yard feeder trees and stumps for oranges and grape jelly. Feeder trees are located near a lake and within a seven mile radius of wetlands, woodlands, farmlands and prairie fields. We have woods behind our property where I believe they nest.
Every year our Baltimore Oriole flock grows larger. On average we go through half a quart of grape jelly or jam a day and one to two whole oranges, cut in half. They also come to and pluck off the bee guards from our homemade Hummingbird nectar. In general, I'd say they like all three food sources equally and go to whatever food is most readily available (unoccupied). The adults bring their young when they're old enough to fly to our feeders. It is not uncommon to see one baby Oriole begging for food from another baby (cross species) and occasionally disagreements arise but more in the beak-thrust, wing-flutter variety and nothing too serious.
Spotted on Aug 5, 2009
Submitted on Dec 24, 2012
2 Comments
Sachin Zaveri-Thank you!! We planted "giant" sunflower seeds that ended up "dwarf" probably because of the sandy soil or amount of shade but their blooms did add a little something to the Baltimore Oriole images. I'll have to plant more of them again this spring. :-)))
Very Beautiful,,