On Olive Backed Orioles

Reddish bills and brown streaks on white unders and back, wings, head and tail mostly green

Birds i know of  but have not often seen

Birds migratory in their habits they do travel far

And are often to be seen where fruit bearing trees are

On bulky type of cup nest of bark and fibre high on outer branch of tree

The female lay white brown dotted eggs of four two or three

Not the predatory type of birds who hunt for their meat

Mostly berries and other fruit they do like to eat

They have a beautiful and distinctive flute liike cheerful song

And as migratory to any one place they do not belong

In the wood in Selby years ago them i did hear and see

Singing and nest building in their breeding territory

The olive backed orioles with ways of their own

Quite pretty to look at and nice to listen to but not that well known.