The past week I have been seeing flocks of Orioles passing thru many times a day. These are juveniles and or females (I can never tell the difference) but no adult males. I never see less than 10 or so and sometimes many more. They go around on the shrubs and flowering plants pecking into everything. I don't know if they are looking for bugs. The strangest thing is that they are plucking petals off the flowers. They either pluck petals from the coneflowers or parts of petals. I think they eat them because I don't see the petals on the ground. The stick their beaks into the open daylily flowers and even into the ones that are not open yet, forcing their beak into the seams where the daylilies will open. Then they are also plucking the petals off a hedge of small red roses I have near my daylilies and Purple Coneflowers. Those I find scattered on the ground under the shrubs. I have watched this go on many times a day for at least the past week. Really strange.

Thanks! I tried to sneak back and take a photo when the sun was out for about 20 minutes but the oriole stayed away. Meanwhile, it went back to raining again. It's been mostly raining off and on-mostly on- a slow drizzle for weeks now. Meanwhile, the leaves are opening and I can see my hopes for more warbler photos in a sunny woods fading. But last year, when the weather stayed fair during spring migration, KY suffered a severe drought that lasted until this current rain, so I should be grateful for it. Now they're putting out flood warnings.

orioles usually return to the area they were born in. they winter in old mexico and central america and some in florida and the islands. just guessing that they would be returning again in mid to late April to your area either to nest or to fill up before they migrate further north. they are probably eating at your place to fill up before they head further south. the ones i get here eat the jelly and necter best but some really get after oranges or orange juice and a couple like watermelon or diced fruit pieces.

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