[SBB] Hummingbirds contra oriole and bluebird

[Hannes Vogel <[[email protected]]>]

This is not necessarily plaid-worthy, but at my home off Montebello  
Road at 2100 feet elevation, every summer brings an increasing number  
of hummingbirds, mostly Anna's but the occasional migrating  
Selasphorus, MAYBE a Black-chinned. In peak summer, they consume 1  
gallon of sugar water PER DAY between about 7 feeders. Their  
territorial or confrontative behavior provides constant entertainment  
but their current 'victims' are a pair of Western bluebirds nesting in  
a box at my house, and now a male Hooded oriole....first I have ever  
seen up here although I have duly noted the annual sightings on  
south-bay-birds in Cupertino (2000 feet below me). I thought I saw the  
oriole the other day and set out orange slices and jam, but of course  
he now prefers the feeders, much to the consternation of the hummers.
Hannes Vogel


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