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| Bullock's Oriole |
Ten in-the-morning seems to be a peak time for bird activity in our backyard here in Fort Collins. We normally at church on Sunday's at 10:00 AM, but today we were sitting out on the patio sipping coffee and talking. I saw streaks of yellow flash by that were definitely not
American Gold Finches, and several were burrowing into a juniper that grows between the neighbor's and our yards. I snapped several photos, but as it turned out, the auto focus keyed in on the juniper berries on the branches in the foreground. This one image, which is pretty poor, was good enough to make an identification this evening - a
Bullock's Oriole. For our seven years in Maryland, we only saw one
Baltimore Oriole, and that was a less-than-showy female. To see five
Bullock's Orioles traveling in a pack, that was a little bit special today. I am starting to enjoy seeing some new birds here.
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