Songbirds Are Back

[ToddsPoint]

By May 1st, most all of our summer songbirds have returned. This male oriole showed up yesterday right on time. They love cheap grape jelly. I get my jelly from Dollar General. Imported from Egypt but it’s made with real sugar and they love it. Others migratory birds that have just showed up are:
Brown Thrashers
Catbirds
Mockingbirds
White crowned sparrows
Chipping sparrows
Meadowlarks
Tree Swallows
Grosbeaks

 

[robertk]

Yep. I love this time of year. We've been awash in grosbeaks this week, and there was an orchard oriole here yesterday (first time I'd seen one at the feeders).

 

[ToddsPoint]

Yep. I love this time of year. We've been awash in grosbeaks this week, and there was an orchard oriole here yesterday (first time I'd seen one at the feeders).

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We have orchard orioles every few years but I haven’t seen one yet. Males are dark reddish and black. That’s a female in your pic for sure. Is that a pic from a feeder that has a camera built in?

 

[robertk]

We have orchard orioles every few years but I haven’t seen one yet. Males are dark reddish and black. That’s a female in your pic for sure. Is that a pic from a feeder that has a camera built in?

Yes. It's a "Birdfy" brand but there are others. It does a great job, I just have to remember to clean the lenses now and then or it gets blurry (like now, actually).

Here's a couple more from this morning.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Those are all great pics of birds. My wife just loves to feed wild birds.