Oriole and Grape jelly

WOW!! Great pictures!! I love the bent neck in the second picture. And the flower to the right of it is beautiful.

I know I have some around but they never ever came to the feeder! I will definitely try you jam jelly trick!

They are great looking birds! Thanks for sharing Iris!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Thats a cool trick Iris, hope that the jelly is free of all addatives for they could be harmfull. Thanks for sharing your pictures of such a colorfull bird. Rog

-- Listen quitely and nature will tell you what to do..Open your eyes widely and you will be amazed..

in my books, any picture is a good picture when the subject is non-cooperative!

aren’t they a beautiful bird!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Terrific pic

WE don’t have this beautiful bird

I have friends in Ont , a bird photgrapher, she says they love oranges. Just peel and cut the orange up. They sit by the hour as this bird sucks the life out of an orange

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

GREAT photos … and I love hearing that they eat grape jelly.. how cool is that!!

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5

I think the pics are fine! We only see them briefly here so I’ll have to put out some of my grape jelly to encourage them to visit more often. Our local baseball team is named for those beauties: The Baltimore Orioles. :-)

-- Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it, and pick blackberries...

Great photos for these camera-shy birds! They would have to fight me for the grape jelly-it is great on rye bread!

Nice shots Iris.I love the orioles.We used to get them at our last place and we would cut oranges in half for them.They love them too.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I also have an orange station for them. It was hard to keep oranges on it bc both the orioles and finches kept them cleaned out. But since I put out the grape jelly, the orioles don’t go to either the oranges or the sugar water.

Thanks for looking at my orioles and for the appreciative remarks.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

I am impressed and thank you for yet another “trinket” to lure the summer birds to my window

they sing as well as they look…...........perfect!

-- Central northish Ontario

I got a few more pictures of the orioles. This time juveniles. They started coming with the parents first but now seem to think this is their personal feeding station. They are much more approachable and continued to eat while I took these pictures.——from inside the kitchen door.

Sorry you can only see the rump of the one on the left….................................................................

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

This is so great! Great pictures! Thanks for sharing, brightens the day!!
I did put oranges, again, but they never came! I see them in the trees!LOL

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Eklectic, I just recently read that while orioles like oranges, they tend to stop coming to them after they have been back in our area for a month or so. I find the finches still come to them but haven’t seen an oriole go to the oranges, especially since they found the grape jelly. So don’t give up on the orioles completely. Feed the finches now and try for the orioles again next spring. :-)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Good to know Iris thanks.I will try the grape jelly for sure next spring when they pass through.Maybe I can persuade them to stay if I use it.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more