(Courtesy of Wild Birds Unlimited) For most people, the hooded oriole is the more familiar ... local nests are found almost exclusively in California fan palms, a tree native to Southern ...

DEAR JOAN: I didn’t know we had orioles in California! Two of my dad’s tours ... Altamira, Audubon’s, hooded and the streak-backed. I’m guessing the ones you saw during your father ...

And in these last days of March, which are also the first days of spring, many of our native birds are quite busy. The hooded orioles began appearing in Southern California backyards just a week ...

A flash of orange-yellow was all it took for me to declare, “Bullock’s oriole!” Sure enough, once we got the binoculars on ...

Kris Bay Area DEAR KRIS: I’m guessing the birds in question are California towhees ... DEAR JOAN: We have had hooded orioles raising a family at our feeders for years, but never in March.