Went Friday after work to check out the corpse plant blooming in NY Botanical Garden and then went for a little evening bird watching. Lots of goldfinches, robins, and starlings - but also three very active Eastern Kingbirds and a beautiful male Baltimore Oriole. But the highlight of the evening was an impressive male Orchard Oriole in the Native Plant garden section just outside of the Rock Garden. I couldn’t find the nest - but it’s constant low flying back and forth seemed to signal to me a nearby nest. I pinged Debbie Becker and we suspect this may be the first reported nesting of an Orchard in the park.
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