I was a psychotherapist before I took early retirement, and among other things, I specialized in the group treatment of anger and violence.
So, it is with no small irony, that I present to you the untreatable Bickersons, who have moved in to the former peace and quiet of Hollerdom, turning it into a downright Hollerfest!
Man, do these birds bicker! This is one cranky lady Oriole, and she is certainly giving this guy a piece of her mind.
The guys, hang around drinking nectar, and soon they too, come to words.
When the ladies get involved, it’s hard to hear what anyone is saying with all the squawking going on!
At least they never resort to actual fighting. The hummingbirds could learn a thing or three about this, but they don’t seem open to feedback.
These birds started out so shy, but as you can see now, they are quite at home at The Holler!
Cheers to you from the beautiful, bickersome, but highly entertaining, Holler Hooded Orioles~
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No matter how noisy they can be, they are very beautiful and yes, that kind of neighbors are great, much different from the noisy, as lives here 😀
I agree with you 100%, give me bird bickering over human bickering anyday!
Golden beautiful – even if they are noisy…Beauty forgives many a thing…
Yep, I love them !
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Awesome, Cindy!
Very pleased you enjoyed & thanks you~
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So very kind of you and so very appreciated. Thank you and be well Sharon! <3
Obviously, no other bird species want s to invade their space. A beautiful, showy bird with an attitude. Love that opening picture, Cindy.❗️
Doesn’t he look pensive and sweet! <3
Awesome!!!!
Awwww, thank you!
You need more birds!
Laughing, you would not even believe how many I am looking at right now! I have the Audoban garden! 😉
I love it! Your photos are always so focused. I’m not sure how you do it, but I sure enjoy.
So glad you do and thank you!
Your birds feel so secure at the Holler no wonder they all pass the word along…
My dest looks out on the side garden where all the feeders are, there must be a hundred birds. Now the pileated woodpeckers are coming closer. They are extremely shy birds, but so far I have gotten 3 good photos of them. Hoping for more!
Takes so much patience to get such good photos Cindy.
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They are so beautiful with that yellow plumage!
Aren’t they just stunning birds!
They make the birds in my garden seem very plain
What gorgeous birds and it sounds like they are very entertaining, albeit noisy! Beautiful shots.
They are wonderful to watch! They bow their heads and then point their beaks in the air in unison! Hilarious……
Beautiful looking birds and nicely shot (what am I saying). 🙂
You are saying something very nice and I thank you!
beautiful work
Awwww, so appreciated!
no worries 🙂
I love your views!
Hard to beat the hummers and the orioles, I must admit!
I love your sense of humor with this post, Cindy. And the photos that accompany the story are absolutely breathtaking. I love to see the Orioles when we’re lucky enough to entice a few over to where I live, but I’ve never witnessed the bantering you’ve been able to capture. What a treat!
They are such sociable birds and I am enjoying watching all their posturing and displays. So pleased you enjoyed them and thank you too!
Hahaha. Great photos of The Bickersons, Cindy. You made me smile, remembering that series. 🙂
You remember! Wonderful! <3
So amusing! Thank you for the laugh!
If you laughed, I am happy! 🙂
Wow, what a brave career. One angry person turns me into a mouse, a group turn me into mercury. Love the birds and can forgive them at this distance. We have very quarrelsome magpies in our garden, though they do look splendid.
Yes, magpies are incredibly intelligent and fun birds to interact with. I enjoy them especially because I only see them when I travel. They seem to enjoy human attention, and give sticks and things as presents!
Gorgeous birds, lovely photos! Doesn’t seem to be much peace and quiet when they’re around, but hey, at least they’re not hurting each other, right?!
Exactly, they are really aren’t noisy birds, just a tad bickersome, but really entertaining to watch!
The three on the feeder make a great photo, posed perfectly.
I noticed the shadows they cast, did you get a shot with the full shadows included?
I think they are all hyped up on that sweet nectar.
They are like children that get too many lollies.
That is a layman’s diagnosis.
Could well be, and yes the shadow were mirror reflections. I thought about them, but eliminated them for the post as much as possible. I will look back at them and consider including the shadows. It was especially interesting to see the shadows of the birds in flight. Thanks for noticing this Jack and for the prompt! I will follow up on it and I appreciate it.
Those shadows looked so good I wanted to see more of them. Even at the expense of the composition. The way you presented the photos went well with the post. The way those birds were balanced made them the whole attraction. Adding the shadows would diminish the effect you achieved.
I would like to see how you follow up on this idea. I just take snap-shots but I like to l pay with shadows and reflections. You have probably noticed this in my blog photos. Pleased you found the shadows interesting too.
I love shadow and reflection. They fascinate me because they challenge our perceptive abilities to objectively observe. It’s like looking in a mirror. It’s you, but it’s not. I think all human perception may have this same filtering effect. In order to make sense of visual phenomona, our brain, through our eyes, filter what we recoginize and see. You are so perceptive to have noticed the shadows. You are right it would change the composition, but I have already been looking at them and considering due to your excellent feedback. Thank you Jack.
That’s so funny–I just love it!
Those lady orioles have some anger management and spousal communication issues! 😉
Such beautiful birds and I bet that bickering is loud and fill the air with life and noise.
I actually went online to the Audoban Society and listened to all the different vocalizations orioles make and played it for them!
Simply beautiful 🙂
They are stunningly beautiful birds!
Did you treat the angry or the ones who suffered from angry partners? Birds can be aggressive, can’t they? I never thought of them as angry, but you are no doubt right. Imagine how they must feel when a squirrel drives them away from a bird feeder!
In London I watched the foxes get a magpie. The magpie proceeded to taunt, bedevil, chase and pester the foxes for many hours. Magpies are in the corvid family. Corvids are being studied for their prodigious memory. They will remember the face of a person who does a bad thing to them for years! Birds definitely get angry, and may even hold grudges. Rather human like, no?
My cat was the same. He only came out for a charmed few, and the rest he remembered, and avoided. The animal world is fascinating. Enough to make me a vegetarian.
Now that also reminds me of people who study crows. They say the same things about crows. The crows even remembered his car — he was prone to climbing into nests, which they did NOT like. They would see his car in another part of town and scream at him. Must have made his life quite exciting. They also never forget someone who feeds them. They leave presents.
Yes. Exactly crows are corvids. They do not forgive and forget! 😉 I think we read some of the same studies. Woodpeckers can remember where they hide thousands of acorns. Can you imagine us doing this? Yes meat eating is becomming increasingly impossible for me too. I am moving away from it and not missing it. Did you read about the US dentist who lured a collared lion out a national park with meat, shot him with an arrow, and then killed him 40 hours later with a rifle. He has photos of himself with rhinos, leopards, and big horn sheep he shot with arrows. It is the first time I made a rude comment to someone online. I told him he is a small man. He is, a small man with big arrows, and no heart. He’s raising kids. I hope they can find a way to love and protect wildlife.
Howdy. Every time WP makes a change somewhere, the latest with their Reader –
it seems to mess up something else. Hope you are having a wonderful
season – cheers, Jules
I see you’ve been busy too – I spent some time in Kentucky (hubby had a job there) – and we’ll be going to your way (at least I think) this weekend. Looking forward to seeing the Blue Moon on the west coast.
Yes, they are fixing some of the deficits in the new reader format recently, I noticed, which is good. Welcome to the west coast, the moon is quite gorgeous, and I hope you have a wonderful visit! <3
Great photos Cindy! I hope those bickering birds calm down! 🙂
Not too much I hope! They are quite entertaining~ 😉
LOL
Great photos and beautiful birds even if they are noisy. Feeding birds can be very educational and entertaining, I am often surprised from my own experience when feeding birds just how seemingly angry and aggressive they can be.
They can be at times. I have never seen a fatal interaction though, and we have hundreds of birds at The Holler daily.
¡Parece que tienen mal genio! Hacen sonreir porque, en el fondo, se parecen a los humanos cuando defienden su espacio.
Si, exactamente! El comportamiento de rebano pajaro me recuerda de la conducta humana en grupos por lo que me encuentro tan interesante. Las aves son mucho menos daninos que los seres humanos, sin embargo, y en realidad no se llevan mejor.
Hahaha. That’s hilarious. Gotta love watching the way other creatures communicate and interact. Wonderful photos.
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I also find this immensely entertaining and interesting. So happy we are in accord!
Hahaha. 🙂
Cindy, I do believe there French cousins are in the lovely park-like garden beneath my bedroom window. While some do bicker, many have lovely voices and sing me awake.
They are pretty wonderful to live around aren’t they. They live so fully and completely every second, it helps us do the same!
Absolutely my friend!
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Beautiful bird, noisy or not. Excellent photos too, Cindy. :@)
Yes they are lovely birds in every way!
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Beautiful noisy birds. Everything seems loud here in Texas particularly the cicadas… Wonderful shots.
Cicadas can create quite the symphony can’t they! I have been places where they are extremely loud, but it is a soothing sound isn’t it! Thanks much & cheers~
A pair of bluebirds moved into a “decorative bird house” that has been hanging (unoccupied) on our deck for years. They don’t fight among themselves, we do not like when we come to sit on our deck. Fortunately, they should hatch and fledge their young in a few weeks. Amazing photos you got of the orioles. Our variety mostly hide in the trees.
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I have an owl box that sounds like your bird house. It is on it’s second year with no owls. How exciting to be able to watch and photograph the bluebird’s nesting. I look forward to your photos!
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Awwwww, very pleased you enjoyed the orioles. They add a lot to our lives, bickering and all! Thanks much and cheers to you~
Beautiful post, beautiful pictures..
Just followed your wonderful blog.. 😉
Welcome and very pleased to meet you! Heading over to your blog now. Cheers & thank you~
Hi Cindy! I was unable to locate your “About” page so hope you don’t mind my posting this here. I’ve nominated you for the Creative Blogger Award. Here’s hoping you will accept. The award and rules are at;
https://blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/creative-blogger-award/
Oh, I am honored and so appreciative! Thank you for your kindness and congratulations for the most well deserved award! Cheers to you and be well~
ich bitte um Sonne, alles Gute für dich, Klaus
Guten Tag Klaus und vielen dank mein Freund!
alles Gute und danke
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Hi Cuz
Been another busy period. I just don’t seem to have any time of my own anymore. The job jar is always full, and when it isn’t, the kids/grandkids want/need something, so I’m left with fleeting moments to read, write ???, and visit with friends (and cousins). The orioles are beautiful birds, but, as you note, bicker a lot, and there are neighbors down the street that are bad enough, I wouldn’t want that scenario in my back yard !!!! Ha ! 🙂 Hugs.
The human bickering is much harder to take isn’t it cuz? I am not surprised you are busy, you have so many interests and abilities, and of course family is a first priority. No worries. We are here, waiting until you have time. Be well cuz and enjoy the sunshine! <3
Wonderful photos. What a show. Nothing like them here!
They are pretty spectacular birdies! Thank you~
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I love orioles and when I was growing up we saw some Baltimore Orioles around in the Sandusky, Ohio area. I am not sure if I have seen any lately, Cindy. I wished to let you know I hope you don’t mind a little advertising, I am posting tomorrow (Wednesday, July 29, 2015) my August calendar. I like to do this mid-week usually to help boost views and also, prepare my readers, fellow bloggers to upcoming events. Like the full moon on July 31st into August 1st has a big musical event going on in New York City, so needed to get people’s traveling arrangements into consideration. 🙂 I mention your blog due to a beautiful quote I found about hummingbirds and your posts always are so beautiful, Cindy. No one’s birds and creatures are more lovely. Thanks for your unspoken agreement to this, since I don’t post photos I just send them to check out your Holler hummingbirds. Hugs, Robin
Did you know my former aunt in law was a Sandusky from Sandusky? You are so kind Robin and courteous too. Thank you my friend for you continuous kindess! <3 <3
Cindy, you truly have the most beautiful and interesting birds at the “Holler”. They are bickering!
Hugs! Veraiconica
Yep. They are doing it right now too! I am watching them~
What a nice color combo – just the right balance of each color!
They really are spectacular looking aren’t they!
No rest for the wicked as they say!! 🙂
Laughing, they do at least go to bed quite early! 😉
That must be a blessing some days!!
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hahaha – what a great post. And such beautiful birds!
Yep they are beauties. I am quite partial to them, and they are getting more and more comfortable around us!
I love this, Cindy. It’s fun (But I don’t have to hear the racket…)
They actually are not loud and are lots of fun to watch!
Superb shots and funny too. 🙂 Just where ist this, Cindy?
Thanks, The Holler is in an unicorporated rural area, north east of San Diego.
Nice photos!
Thanks!
What have they to squawk about, Cindy? Free food, pleasant surroundings and wonderful company! 🙂
I think they just like to talk! 😉