After a certain number of birthdays a guy just doesn't want to be reminded.  I've come to calling them anniversaries of my thirtieth, which seems oddly funny.  Now my knees ache, my hands hurt, and my back has a disc that is basically silly-putty (from pushing deep-snow off the roof of a motel).  And why would I bring this up now?  Silly me, today is my anniversary again and I'll be cutting this blog a little short....like me.  

     The breeding Hummingbirds of the Wind River Canyon have arrived, and in a greater number than we have ever seen in sixteen years!  Since "why" would seem to be the next logical question, my answer would be this----the Wind River Canyon, here in clean-air Wyoming, is an ideal place to raise Hummingbirds.  We have it all, bugs, safe nesting sites, good summer weather, and some nut that puts up nectar feeders (that's me).  

     We have four species of Hummingbirds, that are nesting here right now, in the Wind River Canyon; the Broad-tailed, the Rufous, the Black-chinned, and my favorite the Calliope Hummingbird.  I've already started on my second 10 pound bag of sugar, the earliest that has ever happened!  This is really due to this week's anniversary video blog subject, the gorgeously beautiful Bullock's Oriole.  

     Here are two short-form wildlife videos starring one of my new favorite birds, the female Oriole.  The first video is of an adult female Oriole that likes to jump in and out of frame, the second video is of a young female Oriole (born in the canyon this spring) that has found her singing voice, enjoy. Bullock's Oriole female on Hummingbird feeder - Wind River CanyonVideo of a Bullock's Oriole female on a Hummingbird nectar feeder in the Wind River Canyon, Wyoming. Bullock's Oriole female Singing on a Hummingbird feeder in the Wind River CanyonVideo of an Oriole female singing on a hummingbird feeder in the Wind River Canyon, Wyoming. Writing of this wildlife blog, and videography, by the forever young Michael John Balog.

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