Spotting a pair of Golden Oriole in our garden today was delightful! It is after a long time, we had their visit!
We had visits from singles of Black naped Oriole and Black headed Oriole in the recent months. So it was good to watch a pair of Golden Oriole making their halts in different trees in the morning golden hour. I hope we will be able to spot a Maroon Oriole in the near future. It is a craze of all serious bird watchers to keep adding to the list of all the sub species spotted in one family of a particular bird species.
Among the well groomed birds, the Orioles stand out.
Their bird calls can be heard only when it is not noisy as theirs is a soft and musical bird call.
They make neatly shaped and formed woven nests which hang suspended from forked leafy twig.
I have a suspicion that the black streak around the eyes extends backwards in the Indian Golden Oriole unlike in the ones in Europe.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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