Baltimore Oriole in Washington County
2010-06-30

Common in Washington County in the Summer season

Baltimore oriole from Tom & Elizabeth Bell's feeder on Gray Cloud Island. We had assumed it was a hatching year male. After checking the McGill Bird Observatory website - http://www.migrationresearch.org/mbo/id/baor.html - we now think this is a three year old female. The tipoff is the brown tail feathers (retrices). I guess female orioles can be complicated.

Larry Sirvio