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Icterus parisorum
Scott’s oriole is one of the birds most often mentioned in the context of Joshua tree forests, and I spent about eight years in Joshua tree forests not seeing them. First one I ever saw was in 2005, a ways down inside the Grand Canyon a couple hundred miles from the nearest Joshua tree, and I didn’t see them in the J trees until one night in April 2006, on my way home from visiting Kat in Prescott, which would turn out to be my last night in the Joshua trees for more than a year. That night, there were dozens of them. Had they been absent before, for some reason? Had I just not seen them, though they were all around? That’s always possible for a fledgling birder like myself. Seeing that one in the Canyon may have provided me with the search image I had needed. I’ve been wondering about that since.
But today I found I was just looking in the wrong place.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
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