Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Ally on May 20, 2020, 03:31:15 PM
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When I went out, a call captured me, it was almost like a house wren, sort of scolding drumming. I manged to take some photos but they are not really good. But I found a warbling vireo in the similar area and similar appearance later. So surprised to hear that sound.
I saw a couple of cedar waxwings feeding each others. two yellows fight, and two orioles fight. Very emotional day.
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Yellows
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More fights
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No body combat with the oriole, they fought more with songs and dances
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Baltimore orioles are often fighting in my backyard. The orange is located right nest to the
Hummingbird feeder therefore a given oriole can partake of either option. If a second oriole
arrives on site and accepts the unoccupied option it will be almost immediately repelled by
the oriole already there. So that an alpha male on the feeder will chase away the oriole on the orange and usurp the fruit. The rejected oriole will quite naturally relocate to the feeder only to be chased
away again, and so forth, like a dance. I've also seen two opposing males face each other about
30 cm apart and undulate their whole bodies in reciprocal fashion, again in the manner of a dance.
I'm glad that as humans we have evolved past all that nonsense because, quite frankly, I can't dance.