This weekend Baltimore Orioles have been frequenting my feeder that has a small dish of grape jelly just for them.
See the little pop of orange in the feeder? That’s an Oriole.
Here’s a better look at the vibrant, beautiful male Baltimore Oriole and a better look also at the camera feeder I purchased in October.
My first camera feeder was a gift last Christmas from my son Joseph. What a great surprise that was and I quickly got into seeing the daily short video clips it recorded of a wide variety of birds we have in the Charleston, S.C. Area.
But that device stopped charging last summer. I finally bought a new one last month and I’m glad I did. Here is what I acquired. I’ve shared this link with a few folks who have asked after some bird video posts I’ve made on our neighborhood’s Facebook site.
Here’s a fun screenshot I made today from an Oriole video.
And below is a 15-second video recorded today. I like the picture and sound quality.
Here’s a female Baltimore Oriole getting a belly full of jelly.
Closely watch this clip. It begins with a bee, a yellow jacket I think. These bees like jelly too. Then an Oriole appears. Then the bee is gone, eaten by the bird it looks like! How quickly this all happened.
This one cracked me up. I went out earlier today and saw the jelly plate was on the ground. Well, let’s go to the video to see how it happened…
The male Oriole (above) seems to be asking, “What happened to the jelly?”
Some of the Orioles have bands around their legs. This fellow is a regular. Note the different color bands. The colors mean and signify something though I do not know what. Experts from the Audubon Society track birds with these bands. They get an idea of a particular bird’s range of travel and its age can also be determined.
A fellow birder in my neighborhood has had Audubon people come to his house. At his backyard feeders, they use nets to as gently as possible temporarily capture different birds to place on them these bands. The neighbor has told me that Baltimore Orioles have been tagged this way on his property.
The new camera has captured a few other visitors not part of the usual suspects. This Eastern Phoebe is one (above).
Ruby-crowned kinglets have also been a fall surprise. So far I’ve only seen the female of the species. She lacks the distinctive red spot on the head that the male has. I have had the male come to my backyard but not yet this fall. You can see a male Ruby-crowned Kinglet in my 2018 post about a rare snowfall in Charleston.
Here a few more bird types that I’ve been happily feeding in my backyard.
Downy Woodpecker, a male indicated by the splash of red on his head.
Northern Cardinal (male)
Northern Cardinal (female)
A pair of Chipping Sparrows
Carolina Chickadee- This was one of the first birds to come to the new feeder after I charged and installed it on Oct. 20. I will add more videos as my feeder, hopefully, attracts even more types of birds in the months to come.
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