Altamira Oriole female at hanging nest Avail in M,S:M 960X1200px @300dpi

Altamira Oriole female at hanging nest Avail in M,S:M 960X1200px @300dpiThe female is more yellow orange than the flame orange male. The male and female were exchanging places in the nest about every 30 minutes. I never saw food in their beaks, so I assumed they were incubating.

sitting on a couple of cut trunks

but a cool island anyway

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but I never saw the Trinidad Euphonia (on Tobago)

partly matte finish and will be a welcome birdy to any room

you're going to have to go far south to see them

"What's up there

At Punta Tombo there were 250

the red-brown feathers  against the blue

This male with the red moustache was dancing around the tree with a female

Here the pinks and purples of the male Costa gorgette shine and some of the blues look black

• See-through sides