TMOOREAIA at aol.com wrote:
>
> I could use some help clearing up confusion about an oriole I watched for 15
> minutes this morning (5/23) from 6:15 to 6:30 in Bellingham WA's south hill
> (corner Gambier and 12th street). At first I thought I had a yellow-headed
> blackbird in my styrax japonica. But this was an oriole, although not
> apparently either Bullock's or Baltimore.
>
> The bird was about 8 or 9 inches, with a "sleek" profile. The bill was thin,
> black, slightly recurved. The color was bright yellow, very very bright
> yellow on the breast and rump and tending toward yellow-orange around the
> head and neck.

Lynn, you might consider a first year male Bullock's Oriole as a
possibility.
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Cheers,

Don Cecile
Port Alberni, B.C. Canada
dcecile at cln.etc.bc.ca.