The colorful bird featured in my post yesterday, the redheaded woodpecker, is extremely rare in my backyard. Today’s bird, the Baltimore oriole, used to stop by on rare occasions only. Now it flies in for multiple visits daily, enjoying the grape jelly I generously serve in the new jelly dish I purchased at Wild Birds Unlimited. It’s a bird named for a baseball team and a slight twist on the expression, “If you build it, they will come,” from the 1989 movie, Field of Dreams.” In my case, it’s “If you buy it (their favorite kind of food and feeder), they will come.”
Here’s a memory for baseball fans “of a certain age” who can remember when two major league teams played in Philadelphia. Many years ago, when Connie Mack’s Athletics were still making headlines at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, my father and I were big fans. We would go to the season openers and shiver in the box seats on the home team’s side, hoping for a win by our A’s; and we would sit in the sun to watch spring training games in West Palm Beach, Florida to cheer them on. When the A’s left Philadelphia and my parents retired and moved to Baltimore, Daddy switched his allegiance to the Orioles. I’m sure he would love to see these beautiful birds in my backyard and to share these memories with me, and I wish mightily that I could share them with him.
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 
You sure have had some wonderful posts lately. All those beautiful birds!!
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I have been delighted to share the birds and especially since they came to our backyard.
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A fine visitor to encourage…makes me want to try one of those feeders, too!
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It’s such an easy feeder to use. We bought a huge jar of grape jelly, and they are rapidly finishing it off.
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Hey he was with you the whole time you were setting up the bird feeder and thinking of this post! Grape jelly who would have thought!!!
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Grape jelly is in high demand with the orioles. Occasionally other birds will have some, but it is mostly the orioles at that feeder. It is hanging right outside the window where I can easily watch them, even when it is raining.
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