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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Are oriole "feeders" fakes?
Message-ID: <1991May29.081044.10957@nmt.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 08:10:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: nmt.1991May29.081044.10957
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Yup, in California the orioles will attack hummingbird feeders.

I used to have a feeder in Cupertino (just west of San Jose
in the south San Francisco Bay area), and "Bullock's"
(Northern) Orioles would visit it.  One morning I was just
waking up, and hadn't put my glasses on yet, but it seemed
to me that the fuzzy orange blob I could see on my feeder
was too big and too orange to be a Bullock's Oriole.  I put
my glasses on and confirmed that it was indeed a male Hooded
Oriole, the only lifer I've ever gotten (a) without my
glasses on, and (b) before I got out of bed in the morning.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber