[CT Birds] Orange backyard

[Katz1449 at aol.com]

>From Bev Propen  5/5  Orange
 
My yard is so loud with singing birds, it's  beautiful!
Everything seems to have paired off so far, except our male  rose breasted 
grosbeak who is waiting for his special someone. (He just arrived  on Sunday.)
My new oriole bird feeder is a big hit with my gray  squirrels.  They sip the 
grape jelly and it stole the orange  half.
So I placed the orange half in a different location, so now I  have noticed 
the catbirds and red bellied woodpeckers  gobbling the orange pieces.
Orioles better get here quickly or I will rename the feeder,  other than an 
oriole feeder.
We have a male housefinch which has been here, on and off, for  quite some 
time.  It has the orange coloration on its head, throat and  upper chest, 
instead of the red.
I wonder if that orange coloration transfer to its young, if  it 
breeds.....does anyone know?
 



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