Authors Note: The Hooded Oriole had been
around our yard for a week or so. We could hear his characteristic
chattering notes and saw a blur of gold and orange occasionally.
I have been looking for a good photo shot, and today I got one
or two. He has been coming to our hummingbird feeder with its
sugar and water nectar mix. What a splendid and very beautiful
member of the bird family! Our pleasure to have him for awhile
to share our bit of the environment.-BT, April 19, 2006
Hooded Oriole
April 19, 2006
Photo by BT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Lens: Can EF75-300 mm F4-5.6 IS
A light broke in upon my soul--
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased--and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard.
----Lord Byron
Our Oriole again
"Each bird must sing with
its own throat."
----Henrik Ibsen
The Oriole atop an Italian cypress
in our backyard
April 19, 2006
The Nest cried out
"Spring is here."
A renewal of life.
The Mother flits in and out
Of the basket doing her Motherly
Things.
A Renewal of Life!
----BT
A sparrow's nest in a geranium hanging
basket
April 15, 2006
Photo by BT
"I was always a lover of
soft-winged things."
-----Victor Hugo
A house sparrow sits among the Selenium
April 22, 2006
Photo by BT
"Spring would not be spring
without bird songs."
----Frances M. Chapman
A Ringneck Dove on ground eating
seed in the afternoon shade
April 29, 2006
"And there my little doves
did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed
their right To general Nature's deep delight."
---- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
