Off to Margaritaville
Noel Laflin
9-16-20
I haven’t seen any of the orioles splashing in our birdbath or raiding the hummingbird feeders in over a week now, so am assuming they have headed south already. With the poor air quality being what it is, they probably decided to pack up early and head back to Mexico for the winter. They are most likely slurping mango margaritas in Puerto Vallarta right about now.
A pair showed up in March, right on schedule, fixed up their nest in the neighbor’s tall palm tree, and reestablished squatting rights to our balcony, chasing away squatting warblers and pissing off the resident hummingbirds.
Soon, adult orioles were joined by junior orioles and it was a ruckus crowd of black and yellow flying in every few minutes to bathe as well as drain sugar water all throughout the summer.
But it’s quieter now.
Opportunistic warblers have started to fill the void once more.
Hummingbirds are pissed about that too.
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