Judi

I enjoyed using Merlin in the activities practicing bird IDs of birds in my yard.   I live in a rural area of the eastern panhandle of WV. The ID of birds ID’d by shape Cardinals and Blue Jays  were IDd first try.  The 3 birds with black and red; red wing black bird, rose breasted grossbeak, and the hairy woodpecker also easy to ID. My my favorite bird is a Baltimore Oriole. It is medium/small, the body is round.  It has a brilliant orange breast and black head and hood.  The tail is mostly black with an orange tip.  The wings are black with white stripes.  It has a very pointed straight grey beak. This bird visits my back yard regularly I have put out orange halves and an oriole feeder but I have never seen him use either.  He and his mate visit the yard at different times, I have never seen them together.  I haven’t found their nest this year but 2 years ago it was in a large walnut tree in easy view of our back porch and we could watch them taking turns to feed their young.