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nectar and abundant insects.
For Virginians who make it our business to watch, it is a bird of May when the new leaves of maples and poplars cast a pale yellow-green veil over the trees. One nineteenth century writer called the Baltimore Oriole the "... very spirit of spring.” The discovery of the nest in the locust tree brought the six and a half-inch, orange and black, oriole to mind.
The pendulous nest — about eight inches long — on Fodderstack Road is so well constructed and tightly woven that it has withstood autumn rains and high winds that tugged with seeming intention of bringing it down. It hangs on and will, no doubt, still be there next May when the oriole returns from the tropics. That happened to the nest I discovered during the summer of 1996. The 1997
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