Date: 04/30/2007

Number: 1

43° 55' 02" N - 78° 35' 23" W

The long awaited BALTIMORE ORIOLE or is it the NORTHERN ORIOLE has
arrived at 0815 hours this morning.

The Baltimore Orioles of major baseball adopted their name (and their
team colors) from this handsome bird dressed in flaming orange and
black. The bird, in turn, has received its name in honor of George
Calvert, Lord Baltimore, a 17th-century nobleman whose coat of arms
bore the same striking colors.

In the mid- 1980's ornithologists concluded that the Baltimore oriole,
a bird commonly found east of the Rockies, and its western
counterpart, the Bullock's oriole, are actually one species, and
united them under a new name: THE NORTHERN ORIOLE.

Let's welcome them and give them a taste of our Canadian hospitality
of slices of oranges and sugar water in some of those special
Humdinger Hummingbirdfeeders which they love.

If we are good to them they will stay around for the summer.

Newcastle, ON

Latitude: 43.9 Longitude: -78.6

Observed by: Donald A.
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