Beautiful May

[asakiyume]

Here is a road I walk every day. This photo is from yesterday, but this morning, when I passed this way, an oriole flew into an apple tree (not visible in this picture) and seemed to be sniffing the blossoms. Maybe it was sipping nectar. Maybe it was nibbling the petals. Maybe it was listening to whispered secrets--I don't know.



These are not the apple blossoms that the oriole was getting intimate with, but these are apple blossoms I especially love, because they're on a tree I grew from a seed.



Beautiful May ♥

Comments

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Apparently there are both New and Old World Orioles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_oriole) and the ones we saw in Malaysia were Old World ones...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You can really see the difference between the two groups of birds in their beaks, but otherwise, as Wikipedia says, interesting case of convergent evolution!