Others, (not me!) succeed by hanging orange slices speared on nail heads on little boards, hanging oriole sugar water feeders, tying orange ribbons to branches near the feeders to attract their attention, etc.

Here, the Baltimore Orioles hang out in the non-birding neighbor's trees eating tent caterpillars or sneak over the roof to snatch drinks from my expensive oriole feeder when I'm gone. But they're only spooky with me-my neighbor sells tires in his front yard (this is eastern KY) and truckloads of people come and go day and night.
Meanwhile, my orange slices rot.
SO go ahead and try it, who knows what they'll do?
(Yes, you do detect a bitter note)

I would at least try through the migration to get some to stop by. I can garuantee if you don't try you wont have any. I'm trying for the first time this year also. I get plenty of hummingbirds, so at worst I have an additional hummingbird feeder. I'm using an oriole feeder with grape jelly and will add oranges when I see some or have some reported nearby. I haven't seen any Hummers yet, should be pretty soon.

That's funny Rachel! LOL You seem to have the same kind of luck I do, bad and/or none. *sigh*

Is this something like the oriole feeder you were talking about Chris? I've been trying to research it some and I got this when I googled it.

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Cool! What's the link to that one?

That is the feeder I have, I got on ebay for $15-20.

I also have that feeder... $10 at a local garden shop last year.

A couple of things about the feeder:

- The color fades if you hang it in the sun all summer. Mine is still orange, but paler than it was. There is a clear difference between the underside and the sun-exposed top side.
- I never saw an oriole use the perches. To eat the orange they will hang from the metal rod. Post-migration, when they stopped eating orange and instead preferred grape jelly, they would still cling to the metal rod and stretch down to eat the jelly from the trays. I never saw an oriole drink nectar, but I was a few weeks late getting this feeder up and it's possible they just no longer wanted nectar by that time. I would like to see orioles using the perches, so I'm considering putting an orange slice over each nectar hole and holding them in place by sticking something(stick/nail) down into the holes.
- We had never seen orioles before, and I wasn't really expecting to see any when I put the feeder out, but within a couple days there were two of them out there eating the orange. This year I am going to get the feeder out sooner and I also have a vibrant orange bucket sitting in the garage that I'm going to throw over a fence board. Between the feeder and bucket I'm hoping any orioles flying over the area will drop in for a closer look.

I use this Perky Pet feeder. It has worked well for me. I was lucky enough to catch a Bullock's male and a Hooded male on it at the same time last summer. They breed in my area and are around all summer so it may not work as well for you.

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Rachel, I went to Google and typed in "attracting Baltimore Orioles" and got several things. The link below had the feeder on it. Thanks Chris, Hawkeye, and Bob for all the info, I appreciate it! Now all I have to do is find a feeder somewhere...

http://my.gardenguides.com/forums/topic/16463

First oriole of the season hung out in my yard for over two hours late this afternoon into early evening. It was a brilliant male and he sure was hungry. He started with the grape jelly. When that was gone he put a dent in the orange half. After I refilled one of the trays with jelly he went back to that.

A few posts above I said last year's orioles never used the feeder's perches. This one, however, was a percher. He even managed to reach the orange from the perches. It helped that the orange was more third than half.

I know I put mine out a little late, but like someone said if you don't put anything out you'll get nothing. No luck on any Orioles, but some gray catbirds have been eating on the orange so I'm happy about that. I'm not giving up! :)

My catbirds should be here very soon. They don't eat any orange, but they LOVE grape jelly. Hopefully, I'll get a few more orioles, too.

Interestingly, my oriole is now going to the hummingbird feeder for nectar. I didn't expect to see that because I've given him plenty of jelly and orange to eat. I filled the oriole feeder with nectar for a couple weeks last year, but the orioles never drank it and it quickly spoiled in the hot sun.

I have one of these:

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...which I really like since I can use it for other things when there are no orioles besides jelly. Available here oriole fruit jelly feeders. I also made a cedar feeder with a dish and fruit skewers, will try and post a photo. It was easy, inexpensive and the orioles used it.

Personally I've never had luck with nectar and orioles, just the grape jelly. Not great luck with oranges either but a friend further north tells me she can't keep enough orange halves out for them. Now I live in an area where they just fly by and could care less about stopping so I haven't put oranges in the copper wire feeder, right now it's supplying my mother chickadee with meal worms, but since hawkeye_wx said they showed up unexpected, I'll try fruit as well. Also someone said the catbirds will eat the oranges.

I have found that they are really attracted to the tulip trees on my property.

I was lucky enough to have a pair of baltimore orioles nesting in my yard about three summers ago. However, last summer they moved up the street. ): But I feel like I got to see more of them last summer after I 'planted' a dead limb in a big pot and nailed a piece of tupperware to the top. I put grapes, mushy strawberries, blueberries, and other fruit scraps in the top, and last summer the oriole became so territorial about this 'feeder' that he sat on one of its branches when it wasn't eating and preened and sang for about 15 minutes at a time. They'd even chase of robins, catbirds, and even the mockingbirds! I also spread peanut butter on the bark, for the woodpeckers.

In addition to robins, catbirds, mockingbirds, and orioles, we also get cardinals and red bellied woodpeckers vying for grapes. It was really the most lucrative feeder I put out, and it was dirt cheap!

Sorry I rambled a tad.
But I recommend grapes! and also any strawberries you may have left over. When I put oranges in the feeder, the orioles didn't touch them. I have no idea why!