I have bird feeders and I have been lucky enough to have a pair of Altamira Orioles that feed from them. I don’t know if they are a pair, but it is only those two.
Ever since my wife began feeding a couple of stray cats the birds don’t come around anymore. We argument over this but I don’t push it. I live on The Jersey Shore years ago I had crackles coming to my feeders. Man, they were something. Beautiful iridescent feathers, metallic almost. Green, purple, really nice. I had, at one time at lest six breeding pairs of kardinals who would come around every Spring time and stay all Summer. Now, hardy see any birds. Except the robins. They’re hardy little buggers.I live near the several bird sanctuaries. Once and I while I go out with my Nikon binoculars and do some viewing. One of other favorites we have lots of here in southern NJ are Red Wing Blackbirds. They like to be around marshes and ponds. There have a very sweet, high pitched,almost I dunno... plaintive call, almost like a sigh.
Maybe they are “on the down low” or are trannys?
So two years ago I bought and set up an oriole feeder off my back deck and within two weeks a pair showed up and started feeding off it. I was ecstatic.....
They came again last year and this year there were maybe 3 pair coming to the feeder.........
I had to take the feeder down about two weeks ago since it was being taken over by bald faced hornets........Not a problem tho since this is the time of year the orioles migrate back to south America....