When the orioles first arrived activity on the feeders was brisk with the migrators gorging on fruit and grape jelly.
Business recently has been quiet. The orioles haven’t entirely disappeared - but their feeding habits have switched to abundant high protein insects and insect larvae as they rear their young high in the tree canopy.
Predictably, by July the adults will return with their fledglings to introduce them to the decadence of grape jelly and oranges.
This is always a hoot because the fledglings will find a perch and beg mom or dad to feed them. By the time they’ve figured out how to feed themselves the orioles beat it out of dodge to wing their way to their wintering grounds.
Last to arrive and first to depart.
In the interim, The indigo buntings continue to come around to indulge their sweet tooth and partake of the thistle seed in the two finch feeders and ordinary wild bird seed along with most everyone else.
As a four year-old visitor recently put it: What is the blue canary bird called?
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