The other day, someone from my family announced that there was a Baltimore Oriole on the humming bird feeder. Since we do not put out chewing tobacco in our feeders, I suspected that they meant an Eastern Oriole. Though, the way those baseball players like to party, I suppose that anything is possible.

But, yes indeed, we do have Eastern Orioles in our yard each year and yes, they do like drinking from our humming bird feeder.

Of course, once the bug season gets into full swing, we hardly see them as they spend all of their time hanging upside down from tree limbs, looking for bugs. We only know that they are present when we see the tips of a branch rustling strangely.

But, for the few weeks that they are present on the feeder, we enjoy their brilliant beauty.