7 hours ago
May 24, 2009
Tropical visitor...
Yesterday Lloyd spotted this stunning visitor to our yard....we didn't have the right lens on the camera so the pictures are not great, and cropped greatly....but at least he got some shots of the bird before it flew off!!!
It's a Baltimore Oriole and they are only here between late May and August - they breed here briefly but spend more than half the year in the Tropics!!! You can try and tempt them to your yard with orange halves on your bird feeders!!! Isn't it stunning in the trees????? What luck that Lloyd was walking about in the back yard when it was flying by!!
Clik on the pictures to see them bigger and see this bird in all it's colourful glory!!!