<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I know orioles become a lot less conspicuous sometime in late June but I believe they don't all leave until about mid-September. Good luck getting some at your feeders before they're gone!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Kristy Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kw@kristywalker.com" target="_blank">kw@kristywalker.com</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">This is my first year feeding the birds in over 10 years. And the first time ever feeding orioles and hummingbirds.
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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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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sincerely,<br><br>Jim Ryan <br>Vadnais Heights<br>----<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.- </span><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/robert_johnson_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Robert Johnson</span></a></font></p><font size="2"><br><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/robert_johnson_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.- </span><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/mignon_mclaughlin_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Mignon McLaughlin</span></a></font><br>----<br></div></div></div></div>
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