[Birdnet] Lazuli Bunting and photos of young orioles

[Connie McManus]

Yesterday (1 Aug) as I was watching the bullock's orioles in my yard, I
caught sight of a lazuli bunting perched on a fence post.  This is unusual
as I live in the middle of Cache Valley, not close to the moutnains.  I
think it was fleeing from the fires in the mountains above River Heights and
Providence.  Anyway, I enjoyed its brief visit.   I hoped there might be
others, but I didn't see any.

Also, all summer I've been keeping an eye on the nests of Western Kingbirds,
Bullocks Orioles and House Finches.  I could see the mouths of the
babies  craning for  whatever their parents would bring to them, but
yesterday, I got a good look at some of the fledglings.  I managed to get
some pictures of some of the young orioles in one of the trees in my back
yard.  I counted about 6 or 7 of them.  There are also around 30 house
finches, mostly females,   that have left the nest, too.  Since this is the
first time I've tried using Picassa Web photo albums, I can't promise this
will work, but this isi the URL to my photo album
http://picasaweb.google.com/connie.mcmanus/AugustOrioles  I don't make any
claims to be ing as good a photographer as Paul Higgins and TIm Avery, but I
think you can see them fairly well.

Connie McManus
Nibley, Cache Valley
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