I live a few houses down from Marie and it is remarkable how delayed things are on the hill this year. We have lived here for three years and this is the first year that the Orioles have shown any interest in orange slices that we leave for them. The previous two years they have routinely fed on the suet (which they are doing this year as well). However, they are going through the orange slices at a rapid rate. Interestingly, we moved here from eastern Massachusetts, where we routinely had orioles that fed on our suet.
We did have a few migrants in the yard yesterday evening include a black-throated blue warbler, redstart, and chestnut-sided warbler. A catbird returned yesterday. Surprisingly tree swallows, which have nested here every year, have not returned. Andrew Miller Ringwood Rd. -----Original Message----- From: bounce-120469864-61975...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-120469864-61975...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Marie P. Read Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:21 AM To: Dave Gislason <dgif...@yahoo.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] B. Orioles in Trumbull Corners - SUET! Hi Cayugabirders, I think it's very interesting how people are reporting orioles eating suet this spring. Maybe this has been reported in previous years, but I don't recall so. I'm wondering whether this change in diet is because so few of the flowering trees are out (at least where I live and in the Cornell Plantations Arboretum where I spend a lot of time). So the orioles are having a hard time finding enough food (they like to sip nectar from tree flowers) . BTW, many of the crabapples in the Arboretum were nailed by the super-cold snap a few weeks back...I've been looking closely...there are few viable flower buds on many of them, and leaves just struggling to come out now. The trees up here seem awfully bare for mid-May. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.marieread.com Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography-104356136271727/ ________________________________________ From: bounce-120469816-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-120469816-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Dave Gislason [dgif...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:11 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] B. Orioles in Trumbull Corners This morning my lone male Baltimore Oriole was joined by two others, plus two females. They love the suet. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
