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The other day we found this little oriole along with his nestmates on the ground the day after excessively strong winds. It seems that the nest simply wasn’t strong enough and appears that the bottom gave way. We debated what to do. The parent birds were still taking care of them on the ground and were actively annoyed at us for going near the babies.

So since the parents were present and still interested we opted to interfere a bit and attempt to save our small orioles:

During the scoop up and put in the “nest” operation the mama bird swooped down on my dear hubby’s head several times. We made short work of getting the nest jug settled. And the next day we were happy to see that the parent birds have adapted to our makeshift nest. We observed from a distance the male feeding the babies several times through out the day. We’ll leave them be and hopefully in a few weeks be able to see the small fledglings first flights!

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