Thursday's Gift

I spent yesterday stitching bands of yellow and black.

The bee needs wings and then he'll be ready to fly...

Speaking of flying...I had a birding gift Thursday evening. 

A lovely female Bullock's Oriole came by.

I heard her first as she makes very usual clicking sounds.

She posed in a tree top for a bit... 

I wish she'd been in front of the branches...

Then she flew into a thicket...

...and finally out on a branch where I could see her. 

She even spent a moment on a bird feeder.  You can compare her size with that of the Evening Grosbeak. 

She has a ring of black dots atop her head.

I wish the colors had not washed out, but she was quite far away...

And when she wasn't, she was obscured by branches.

I do have an oriole nectar feeder set out.  Maybe she'll come back and find it.