Bird Watching: Daily Pics Vol. 182, 1 by nanny_56

nanny_56 wrote:
evie, last year I tracked them here http://www.learner.org/jnorth/season/ while watchong for the hummers. Plus someone north of me, in Michigan I believe, posted they had a sighting around the end of April. I spotted a pair on 4-28-08. So I started putting out a little dish of jelly to get them coming and "BINGO"! I had at least 2 Oriole familes coming. It was soooo cool! I was like a little kid in a candy shop.

I have a nectar feeder for them, and a little dish of plain water, and they loved red grapes, as did a lot of the birds!! Spent a fortune in grapes. Mine were not really eating the oranges so I quite putting them out. I think the trick is to have it out before they get there or as soon as you spot them.

A pic of the Oriole Buffet table...