Update From the Oriole Ranch

Just a few days ago the adult orioles began returning to the feeders - and they've included their fledglings.  

They’ve been away for about a month tending to their young that constitute the Class of 2019 recruits. Those babies have fledged and a diet of insect protein now includes generic grape jelly and expensive navel oranges.  

It's quite hilarious to observe these juvenile birds alight the feeder and then whine and squawk for mom or dad to feed them.  Seriously, they need to be fed as they haven’t learned to help themselves.   Sure, they can take flight yet they are the avian equivalent of toddlers at the dinner table.  Demanding toddlers too.  

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We’re going to enjoy these colorful visitors while we can.  They’re among the last of the migrating songbirds to arrive and the first to depart.   

Opened the 17^th jar of grape jelly today.  A new record.