Unbelievable yard birds tonight!

["ld tripp" <ltripp29 at hotmail dot com>]

Just before 7:00 PM tonight I was looking out the window and I saw something 
fly from a Cottonwood tree into some willows in my from yard that looked a 
little bigger then all the house finches that were out there. I got my binns 
and saw that it was a Oriole. It looked to be a first year bird and after 
studying and taking photos of it for about 20 minutes I am quite sure that 
it was a first year Baltimore Oriole. Everything seemed to fit well but in 
that plumage it can be difficult to rule out a hybrid with a Bullock's. I 
got several photos that I haven't had a chance to look at yet so I'm not 
sure how good they are going to be. And if that wasn't enough while I was 
watching the Oriole a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak flew into the same tree 
and I had both birds in the same field of view! ( I got a couple pics of it 
also ) I started pinching myself because I have this dream all the time. I 
don't have a very big front yard and couldn't believe that these birds were 
in it at the same time and I just  happened to be looking out the window 
when the Oriole flew or I probably wouldn't have known that they were even 
there. It make you wonder what goes through when your not watching.

I last saw both of them just before sundown so they may still be around in 
the morning if anyone is in Washington Co. and wants to look around in the 
morning let me know. I leave for work just after sunrise in the morning but 
if I see anything I will post it.

Larry Tripp

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