12th and Fall, just a block south of where the Orchard Oriole was reported a
month ago. I initially saw the bird(female) perched on top of a salmon berry in
full sunlight about 3:30 yesterday. She had folded primary tips at least equal
to the end of her tail. She was facing away from me , so l couldn't see her
throat, or a satisfactory look at the face. She flew across Fall Street and
when she returned began flycatching among the alder and pine saplings in the
excavation site for a potential house. Alder leaves often obscured parts of
her, but while briefly perched l noted the face pattern quite well--a cool gray
auricular patch, more vertical than horizontal, clearly separated both above
and behind by a white stripe. Before l got a more extended study she flew back
across Fall Street at which point l noticed a sprawling hillside garden,
replete with semi feral Fuscia patch, still in flower. There were three
hummers at once, none of them eager to share. They dispersed after which l
could only see one, perched in the heavy shade of a shore pine. The sun soon
set behind the hill a few house lots to the west and l moved to other places
still in the sun. LarsSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
