Any Orioles or hummingbirds yet ?



snow

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usually hummer's show up around memorial weekend in my area,still to cold at night with temp's in the 30's I think,gold fenches are just turning yellow,rose breasted gross bekes just showed at my place last weekend.
 


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One Oriole showed up this morning so the rest aren't far behind. Same way with Purple Martins , one loner showed up and 2 days later the rest were here.
 

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Guys who watch birds and have feeders are gay.

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Saw goldfinches and orioles at the feeders in the last week.
 

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Barn Swallows came back last weekend.
 

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All I'm seeing is an over abundance of starlings, grackles, blackbirds, crows and cormorants.
 


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No hummers yet but 2 pairs of orioles and a single orchard oriole. Barn swallow's just moving in today.
 

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yellow canary moved in yesterday. Wished I had a feeder to keep them around, pretty bird to watch. I think they need a special food to eat.LB
 

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Both orioles and hummingbirds showed up two days ago. Saw several pairs of hummingbirds and and least one pair of orioles yesterday.
 

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Is there a specific feeder for orioles?



They are attracted to orange color. cut an orange in half and and leave it out next to a fluorescent orange hunting gear is your best bet.

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They are attracted to orange color. cut an orange in half and and leave it out next to a fluorescent orange hunting gear is your best bet.

Once you have them coming in then buy an oriole feeder. They like sugar water and grape jelly .

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FFEBEV0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1



Just ordered this one a couple days ago. hanging it gets tricky too because ants like jelly too. Ants can't/won't climb down fireline.
 


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yellow canary moved in yesterday. Wished I had a feeder to keep them around, pretty bird to watch. I think they need a special food to eat.LB

They aren't fussy eaters from what I can tell. They were even sneaking some grape jelly yesterday . I like to spread the food out as much as possible so I throw a hand full on the ground and they dive right in .
 

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Lots of blackbirds, dam morning doves and robins, robins die first then blackbirds and doves, I like to wound them then they walk back to the park, no cleanup then, those yellow finches are a lot fun to watch, they eat any kind of bird food
 


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