My birding skills are rather limited. ( Log Out / Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I think this is a first year male Baltimore Oriole. One of the most brilliantly colored songbirds in the east, flaming orange and black, sharing the heraldic colors of the coat of arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore. Their bag-shaped hanging nests, artfully woven of plant fibers, are familiar sights in the shade trees in towns. There are orioles all over my false blue indigo. The species molts once a year, after breeding and before and during southbound migration. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. I think this is a first year male Baltimore Oriole, but feel free to correct me. ( Log Out / My birding skills are rather limited. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Perhaps this young male refuses to ask for directions? Suddenly something swooped down swiftly from the grove I had been watching to land in the lakeside bushes behind me. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. For a while I was quite in the dark, until I was convinced by David A. Sibley's pictures that this bird must be a 1st year male Baltimore Oriole. Listen for. I had just been watching as as three new warblers made themselves available for my bird list for the day. We had already observed numerous adult Orioles on ourbird Hike. Widespread east of the Great Plains, Baltimore Orioles are often very common in open woods and groves in summer. I think this is a first year male Baltimore Oriole, but feel free to correct me. The song of the Baltimore oriole is melodious and flutelike in tone, but usually a short series of notes, often repeated a few times, and often interrupted by pauses. ( Log Out / Post was not sent - check your email addresses! All orioles should have migrated south by now. The oldest known wild Baltimore oriole was more than 11 years old. ( Log Out / With the brightness of the orange color I flashed \"Blackburnian?\" then I saw it lacked the dark fcial striping of the Warbler. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. There are orioles all over my false blue indigo. Change ). For a while I was quite in the dark, until I was convinced by David A. Sibley's pictures that this bird must be a 1st year male Baltimore Oriole. ?