The only time I had success with oranges for orioles was a number of years back when it was a cool, wet spring and the orioles arrived before there were any tree blossoms or much leaf-out. Unlike this spring!
Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 ________________________________________ From: bounce-56612033-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-56612033-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Marty Schlabach [m...@cornell.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:03 PM To: Carol Keeler; Asher Hockett Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Oranges We have put out orange halves for several years, but have yet to see any bird come to them, even though we hear and see orioles nearby. --Marty ====================================== Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 ====================================== From: bounce-56596041-3494...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-56596041-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Carol Keeler Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:33 PM To: Asher Hockett Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Oranges 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<mailto: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<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/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/ --