Three kinds of orioles may be present. Baltimore oriole males are bright gold and black, while Bullock s oriole, which once was lumped with Baltimore, is still black and yellow, but tends to look less black. Smaller orchard orioles are rusty brown and black. Females of all species are greenish. Orioles love loquat trees.
Buntings are always a treat.
Female indigos are bright brown and the painteds are a deep green. Painted buntings sometimes stay to nest. Migrating through Robins are thrushes but come here in winter. Several other thrushes pass through in migration. Some of them are Swainson s, veery, wood, and gray-cheeked, all of which have gray brown backs and spotted breasts, and forage mostly on the ground.