Thanks for the good idea! I have just the suet feeder I could add the screws to. I've fed the orioles for several years now. I've had out oranges for a week now and no one has come for them. I have Orioles, House Finches, and Catbirds come for the grape jelly. Sometimes, I get a Red-Bellied Woodpecker that comes for oranges or jelly, but not so far this year. They come for suet or seeds. I'm hoping that if I try your technique with oranges, that I may get some new birds on the oranges. Carol Keeler
Sent from my iPad On May 10, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Asher Hockett <veery...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the past few years we've put oranges at our feeders. We have a suet > feeder built like a wee house, made of resin/wood composite. I drilled two > holes in the roof and screwed some long exterior screws - the kind you drive > with a phillips screw gun - from the underside so they stick out of the top. > Then half an orange is impaled in each. We did this because I read somewhere > it would attract orioles. > > It does. But it also is enjoyed by R-b Grosbeaks, B-h Cowbirds, various > woodpeckers, titmice, chickadees, and even the grackles try to get to it, but > the orioles chase them off. Having the orioles so close is a real delight, > and has afforded us the best looks I've ever had of them. > > -- > asher > > -Never play it the same way once. > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
