At mid morning today (May 17), I stopped to look for birds at Foley  
Park in Norwich by the Ledyard Bridge. A first year male Orchard  
Oriole, with a sizable black bib, and a female, also seen well, with  
no discernible black feathers on the chin, were together, along with  
an Eastern Kingbird, in a somewhat isolated young maple growing in the  
largely grass covered portion of Foley Park.

At bit of Orchard Oriole song was heard later, but an attempt to  
locate and see the two orioles again was unsuccessful.

I'm reminded of the Northern Mockingbird seen by a number of us at  
Foley Park on Saturday, but which was not seen again during visits to  
Foley Park yesterday and today.

Although I had made a number of previous stops at Foley Park this  
spring, this was the first time this year I had seen Orchard Orioles  
in Norwich.

Other species found this morning elsewhere in Norwich and firsts-of- 
the-year for me in Norwich during 2010 were a Great Crested Flycatcher  
and a Canada Warbler.

George

George Clark
Norwich, VT

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