OT female oriole feeding babies in the nest

18 years ago

I am so happy to be able to watch this right from my deck. The nest is at eye level about 15' away. I hope I get to see the babies fledge!!!!

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bluebars
18 years ago
Lucky you! Are they timid? Or do they just ignore you? Do you offer them jelly & such?
Friends of mine had orioles nesting in a willow just outside their kitchen door. To keep them from being disturbed, they barricaded the door from inside, and roped off the entrance from the outside with bright yellow tape POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS. For those few weeks, a passerby might have thought a crime had really been committed there! My friend was a great photographer and got some extreme closeup shots of the oriole family from the kitchen window.
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bluebirdbabe
Original Author
18 years ago
Bluebars, I am very lucky!! I can sit on the deck and they come to the nest and feed the babies. Yes, I offer grape jelly but the parents won't come and get the jelly if I am sitting to close to it. They will come if I am at the other end of the deck.

Your friends and the barricade...LOL, but I don't blame them!

I am just thrilled to have them nest so close.
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lisa11310
18 years ago
You stinker! You just had to get one that built closer than mine! LOL And you said you had only ever seen 2 nests! I bring you Oriole luck and you bring me HOSPs! LOL! Thank God they never came back! BUT the Redtail brought her baby by the other day. She is welcome to a chipmunk or two but not my birds. When did you find this nest? (am off to Iowa in the AM but will check in while there).
bluebirdbabe
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18 years ago
Hey Lisa, I knew you would say something about the Oriole. I just had to have mine closer!!!

I just noticed it yesterday. I was so thrilled. I was surprised that they would build so close to the feeders and all the birds that gather to eat.

I hope I see the babies fledge. The parents are pretty tame. They will come and feed the babies when I am sitting on the deck.

I did NOT bring you hosp.!!! They were there before I came to visit you. LOL I wouldn't do that to you :)

Can I borrow your redtail? I have so many rabbits and they are eating all of my bushes I planted for the birds!!!

Thinking about you in Iowa!!

Karen

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