Some may have missed the oriole question below, and I'm interested in the answer.  I had the same experience a few weeks ago, but I couldn't say which Oriole it was - it was yellow-green and singing beautifully.  No black bib.
Carrol Cowan

--- On Sat, 5/23/09, Patricia Valdata <> wrote:


From: Patricia Valdata <>
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] thousands of red knots at Mispillion on Friday!
To: 
Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 11:13 AM


The number I heard from the woman in the nature center was about 20,000
total, with about 4-5,000 at Mispillion during Thursday's flyover count. 

Closer to home, I heard a yellow-green Orchard Oriole singing the other day,
but it lacked the black bib my field guide says is characteristic of
first-spring males. Do female orioles sing? 

Pat Valdata
Elkton. MD