Yesterday at about noon, I spent 15-20 minutes watching the Orchard 
Oriole nest at Ledyard Bridge.  Both adults are feeding young in the 
nest, which is easily visible from the railroad overpass, to the south 
on the west side of the tracks.  It is also < 15 feet from an active 
Baltimore Oriole nest, though I never saw adults bringing food to that 
nest. At one point I had both males within 2 feet of one another on the 
same branch, with no aggression whatsoever.  The Baltimore is a full 
adult, the Orchard a yearling.  The Orchard male has no qualms about 
approaching the nest with an observer at close range, while I had to 
back up > 50 feet along the sidewalk (behind the yellow sign for River 
Road) before the female would deliver her food to the nestlings.

Chris

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org

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