Hooded orioles can be attracted to feeders with sugar water, jelly or mealworms. (Photo by Susie Kelly) If you have the skills, setting and materials, then such a nest offers numerous advantages.

Hooded orioles are often spotted along the California coast because fan palms are a favorite nesting site. As true for all oriole species, the female alone builds the nest and incubates the eggs.

Hooded orioles are birds of summer here, and they prefer palm trees for nesting. If you have palms near you, you will have orioles in your neighborhood. In areas where palms are not available ...

They’re back, but migrating hooded orioles hardly got the welcome ... For the next few months the orioles will begin nest building, generally in palms, and by mid-summer their population will ...

A flash of orange-yellow was all it took for me to declare, “Bullock’s oriole!” Sure enough, once we got the binoculars on ...

In the “Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas,” Holly Peake notes that “nearly all hooded oriole nest sites here can be referred to by street address.” This is because local nests are found ...

We have both Bullock’s and hooded orioles in our area ... Given the placement of the nest — orioles tend to build theirs higher in the sky — my bet would be on the smaller bushtit.

Scott’s, Bullock’s and hooded orioles are found in the Southwest ... nest supported at the fork of a branch. The Baltimore oriole’s nest is more typical of the genus — bag-like and finely ...

The Baltimore oriole, despite its bright plumage, is a member of one of the blackbird clans, known in scientific circles as the Icterus genus.

The oriole nest is an engineering masterpiece ... The Bullock’s oriole is the most common visitor to this area, while the Orchard and Hooded orioles are infrequent visitors. The Scott’s oriole passes ...