Just Passing Through

Another colorful migrant, like the Indigo Bunting, that is a brief visitor to our yard. We see them once or twice and they are gone.

Baltimore Orioles.

This year we put out fruit, oranges on the Willow Tree stump, and grape jelly, two of this species favorite foods. It was to no avail, the birds did not linger. The did eat the food though.

There were four here one day, just outside my office window. I grabbed the camera and got great shots of them interacting at the fish pond waterfall. Or so I thought. 

There was no memory card in the camera. Very sad.

It is quite possible we had over half a dozen of these birds pass through this year.

These are three different individuals, visitors on different days.

And then there were the four that I have no pictures of.

And one other, the first of the year, that I spotted high in a tree and flew off. And there were two we saw in the trees across the street from our driveway one morning.

The minimum number we had visit was four. And if each we saw was a different individual the there were ten. The true number is likely somewhere in-between.

We just need to figure out how to get a couple to stay.