Baltimore Orioles

Icterus galbula

Baltimore Orioles are small orioles. The males are bright orange, with black hoods and backs, orange shoulder patches and white wing feathers. Female Baltimore Orioles are similar but much duller and they lack the dark hood, orange shoulder patch and they have a gray wash on their sides.

2018 Year In Review For On The Wing Photography

By |2024-03-20T09:27:33-06:00December 31st, 2018|Categories: Baltimore Orioles, Birds, Brewer's Blackbirds, California Gulls, Cedar Waxwings, Northern Mockingbirds, Peregrine Falcons, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Say's Phoebes, Tundra Swans, Wild Turkeys, Yellow Warblers, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

All in all, as 2018 comes to a close I realize how fortunate I am to see all the birds that I do throughout the year as a bird photographer, to be able to do what I love and to love my feathered subjects too.

My Rare Baltimore Oriole Sighting In Northern Utah

By |2022-05-11T03:14:53-06:00August 24th, 2018|Categories: Baltimore Orioles, Birds, Little Dutch Hollow, Morgan County, Rarities, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I didn't go up into the Wasatch Mountains yesterday thinking I would find a rare bird but that is precisely what happened after I spotted a beautiful male Baltimore Oriole fly into a serviceberry bush in Morgan County.

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