<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nectar, too:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><h2 id="gmail-food" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",Times,serif;font-weight:400;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-size:1.69271rem;line-height:1.2">Food</h2><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:1.04em;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:"helvetica neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-icon-style" style="box-sizing:inherit;speak:none;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:1;margin:0px;font-family:icomoon"><img class="gmail-icon gmail-food" src="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/images/icons/icon-insects.png" alt="Food Insects" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; display: block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: 56px; padding: 0px; width: 56px; float: left; background-color: rgb(113, 156, 38); border-radius: 0.5em; margin: 4px 10px 15px 0px;"></span>Bullock's Orioles eat insects and other arthropods, as well as fruit and nectar. They glean insects from leaves, branches and trunks; they also pluck insects from spiderwebs or from the air, and take ripe fruit from bushes and trees. Bullock's Orioles use a method called "gaping" to extract juice from fruit, and also sometimes from tough-skinned caterpillars. Thrusting their closed bills through the skin and into the flesh of the fruit or animal, they then pry their bills open inside and lap up the pooling juices with their brushy tongues. Sometimes these orioles skin caterpillar prey by hitting it repeatedly on a branch. Before eating honeybees, they extract and drop the stinger. Common prey insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, and crickets. The birds also take beetles, ants, bugs, scale insects, stinkbugs, leafhoppers, treehoppers, and small spiders. Rarely, they eat small lizards. They take nectar from agaves, introduced eucalyptus, and other flowers. Commonly consumed fruits include blackberries, raspberries, cherries, and figs. Nestlings are fed crickets, stick insects, camel crickets, cicadas, moth and butterfly pupae, earwigs, ants, and crane flies.</p><h2 id="gmail-behavior" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Georgia,"times new roman",Times,serif;font-weight:400;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-size:1.69271rem;line-height:1.2">Behavior</h2><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:1.04em;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:"helvetica neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-icon-style" style="box-sizing:inherit;speak:none;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:1;margin:0px;font-family:icomoon"><img class="gmail-icon gmail-behavior" src="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/images/icons/icon-foliage-gleaner.png" alt="Behavior Foliage Gleaner" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; display: block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: 56px; padding: 0px; width: 56px; float: left; background-color: rgb(224, 115, 34); border-radius: 0.5em; margin: 4px 10px 15px 0px;"></span>Bullock's Orioles glean and probe in trees for insects and nectar, often hanging upside down for extended periods. They make short hops from branch to branch, sometimes flying to the ground to nab insects. Their flight is strong and direct....</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:1.04em;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:"helvetica neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:1.04em;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:"helvetica neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bullocks_Oriole/lifehistory">https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bullocks_Oriole/lifehistory</a><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:1.04em;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:"helvetica neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 7:03 PM Don Coombs <<a href="mailto:wildmushroomer@gmail.com">wildmushroomer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As a less than professional birder, I don't know whether I have something rare in my backyard or not. But I have a Bullocks Oriole or Northern Oriole, which is new for me. He has spent an intense day in my pie cherry tree, which is in full bloom, and I've wondered what he's doing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">My favorite field guide (Sibley) says this species feeds on caterpillars and -- wait for this -- pollen! So here we have a robin-sized bird (and a bright-colored one) feeding like a hummingbird (although not flying in place). Any comments from Audubon types on Vision 2020?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Don Coombs</div></div>
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