<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">I thought they were also, and also brought my jelly in, but then put it back out for the cat birds. Lo and behold, I now have had two female orioles come, and I think I caught sight of the tail feathers of a vacating male one day, too. But maybe not. Might have been a female, but it seemed brighter, in the corner of my eye.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">But I have two females, for sure. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">I usually have grosbeaks at the jelly also, but they have been mostly absent lately, too. Still at the insects perhaps? Or maybe there is enough wild forage for them with wild grapes starting to ripen, black cherries soon ripening, dogwood berries on some bushes, and such. The raspberries and dew berries are picked clean. No more wild currents or gooseberries either.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">- Pamela <br>Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Kristy Walker via Mnbird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I thought the Orioles were gone. August 1 I didn't se any more. Took in my jelly feeders. Then this past Monday one came to the hummingbird feeder. So I the jelly went back out and he has come every day since. </div>
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On Aug 15, 2015, at 9:44 PM, Jim Ryan via Mnbird <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I have not seen an oriole at the feeder since mid-June (but I see hummers daily) and so I left it empty up until about a week ago when I added some jelly, hoping for migrants.
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The bees and hornets (and a squirrel) have been eating all the jelly so I stopped the jelly and switched to an orange half.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">This time of year the orange is a big hit with flies and wasps, which is pretty gross. So after dark tonight I was going to throw out the orange and I came upon a Cope's Gray tree-frog
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