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Old 07-30-2011, 12:31 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Scott's Oriole

Those Orioles are back again, and I've learned they are Scott's Oriole. I haven't been able to snap my own photo, so here's one I found online:

Photo by EGK in San Diego, 2010 (click on image for reference):


As some of you remember from this Spring, they made this nest in a leaf of a Dwarf Brazilian:



Now they are building a new nest in the leaf of ... let's call it a Misi Namwah. Check out the threads of fiber hanging from the leaf. The birds have built a nest similar to the one above inside this leaf and sewn the leaf together underneath it to keep it from falling. Also check out the slits they made near the top for entry and exit.
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