Any Orioles or hummingbirds yet ?



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Orioles at the feeder this morning. Gotta get my grape feeder out tonight. I do have a bird watch question....has anyone ever seen a cardinal in ND? I personally never have.
 

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Orioles at the feeder this morning. Gotta get my grape feeder out tonight. I do have a bird watch question....has anyone ever seen a cardinal in ND? I personally never have.


Not yet but It has happened . I saw pictures on a phone from a friend of a friend who had them at a bird feeder around Carrington.
 

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We have resident northern cardinals in the Red River Valley.

Couple pairs in our neighborhood.

They are fairly vocal birds. Their song carries a long distance.
 

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Hummingbirds yes. Orioles yes. What about purple martins?

The martins showed up about a week ago here. There was a loner that sat on top of the house for two days before the rest of the gang showed up.
 


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Not yet but It has happened . I saw pictures on a phone from a friend of a friend who had them at a bird feeder around Carrington.

So the Carrington Cardinals makes sense to me now. Must be something along that 281 corridor?
 

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Got 2 pairs of hummingbirds, a bunch of Baltimore Orioles, and a couple Orchard Orioles decorating the yards so far.
 

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Every year we get a flock of orioles that stop and load up on jelly and oranges and most of them move on but they don't go far, we can tell when the neighbors are out of jelly . Only one pair of bluebirds that I know of , not sure why they are hard to attract.
 

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The bluebirds were hit hard by that ice storm in Texas a few years back. Takes them a long time to recover and they are fussy nesters. Fewer trees in ND equal fewer bluebirds. One by one the old growth tree claims are taken out.
 


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The bluebirds were hit hard by that ice storm in Texas a few years back. Takes them a long time to recover and they are fussy nesters. Fewer trees in ND equal fewer bluebirds. One by one the old growth tree claims are taken out.
Interesting , I'm guessing we have them in the trees up here but never notice. They don't seem to migrate back to the same box every year from what I can tell , we have them one year and nothing the next year and sometimes two. I was gone and didn't get the boxes cleaned out and wife watched them chase the swallows out and move in, first time that's happened.
 

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This little guy was in our evergreen bush (no idea what kind of bush it actually is) this afternoon.

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My Merlin bird AP tells me it’s this. I have never seen one before.

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This little guy was in our evergreen bush (no idea what kind of bush it actually is) this afternoon.

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My Merlin bird AP tells me it’s this. I have never seen one before.

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I've been messing with that Merlin App and it is pretty neat. When I was in Texas in Feb I saw a few different birds that Merlin helped me with. One looked like a cardinal but grey turns out it is a Pyrrhuloxia (have fun trying to pronounce that).
 

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