So I am obviously not a birdie watcher

[Ralphie ★]

I was thinking orioles are hard to tell apart from robins.

oriole

robin

Oops!

Well shit, maybe I am not that far off!  I should never doubt myself!

[Ralphie ★]

So the first robin of spring would only seem to apply in the northernmost states and Canada.

[Ralphie ★]

It looks like it should be first oriole of spring!  Blue is breeding, red is wintering.

[Further]

During a cold winter the robins disappear around here. This year they hid for maybe a week.

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, Further said:

During a cold winter the robins disappear around here. This year they hid for maybe a week.

How aboot orioles?

[Further]

Just now, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

How aboot orioles?

I get excited when I spot an Oriole. I don't think they are rare but I am pretty new at this bird spotting game and haven't seen many. They definitely don't winter here.

Blue birds are the really neat ones. They don't come out when the weather sucks. We were getting them at our feeder, the weather took a turn and they disappeared, today it started to get nice and one showed up.   Blue bird day is indeed a nice day.

[Ralphie ★]

We have or should I say had a lot of mockingbirds. They were sort of a pita. I wonder where they went?

[Longjohn ★]

I saw my first orioles today. I think I saw some the other day but when they fly past so quick it’s hard to tell. I got out my feeder when I saw him, I’ll be able to get a better look at them when they are on the feeder. Last year’s picture

 

[dinneR ★]

We have a lot of magpies and there are ravens the size of hawks. The bluebirds should return soon. 

This is an oriole.

[Bikeguy]

5 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

It looks like it should be first oriole of spring!  Blue is breeding, red is wintering.

I thought you were going political with this....  with suggestions how and where we spend our vacations.  

[team scooter]

Dang woodypecker was banging on our aluminum house fascia this morning. Maggie was going ballistic. I went out and chased it to the neighbors house.

Dang wildlife. 

[Longjohn ★]

30 minutes ago, team scooter said:

Dang woodypecker was banging on our aluminum house fascia this morning. Maggie was going ballistic. I went out and chased it to the neighbors house.

Dang wildlife. 

I have one that’s been doing that. You would think that would hurt their pecker trying to drill metal. I can’t see it from any of the windows, I should go out and do a walkabout and make sure it’ snot doing any damage.

We rented a log cabin for vacation one time in a state park near Altoona. I woodpecker would wake us every morning drilling on one of the logs on the outside of our bedroom. I walked around to check on what he was doing and he had a hole big enough to put a baseball in it. I told the park ranger about it when we checked out.