• Subject: White Christmas
• From: A*@aol.com
• Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:07:46 EST

It's two days late for a real White Christmas (thank goodness, who wants
to shovel snow on Christmas morning) but it's a picture-book one this 
morning.  We must have about nine inches, though it's hard to tell 
because it has been so windy and drifted in great heaps.
 
One stunning, and surprising sight was an oriole that came to the
feeder, and then hopped around on the show in the breezeway.  He
has been here for a few days now.  Any bird specialists our there?
We used to have orioles years ago - I used to hang pieces of colored
yarn on the shrubbery and watch orioles collect them for nest-building.
The male would sit nearby and chatter at the female to tell her which
pieces to take and what to do with them.  But in the past ten years
or so, I haven't seen them in the summertime. Last year one came
to the feeder a few times - I thought he was just lost, perhaps.  But 
again this one is coming to the feeder.  Have they changed their
migration patterns due to global warming?  If so, I'm afraid they have
been premature - it has been an unusually cold December here - they
say 10 degrees below normal for the period.
 
Auralie

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