I was just reading this thread and feeling very jealous of you all when my doorbell rang and after I answered it I walked through the kitchen and saw 2 orioles at my hummingbird feeder. I could not believe my eyes. I thought I took a picture but nothing showed up in the camera. I may have forgotten to push the button or something. This explains why my feeder has been drained for the past week. I only have a couple of hummingbirds but I didn't put your messages together with the thought that I might have something else feeding there. I found a good web site that tells about them. The pictures on the web don't do them justice. Their color is brilliant. Here is a link that might be useful: baltimore oriole information

Ive tried in vain for years to get Baltimore orioles to come to feeders. I've tried various specialty sugar water feeders, put out sliced oranges and grape jelly to no avail. The only thing that touches oranges here are chipmunks and squirrels, just chewing a little. I see plenty of orioles in May when they return, and sporadically the rest of the year. They are going for the mulberries in my yard now. My brother has orioles that come to his hummingbird feeder - he takes the popular perky pet feeder, and removes the bee guards. These are my favorite sugar water feeders. (I put up a couple without realizing the perches are in the bottom of the box, be sure to install those.) Orioles might go for mealworms - those seem to be like filet mignon for birds. Here is a link that might be useful: perky pet feeder

Thank you all! >>So how do you keep the squirrels from messing with the fruit?I haven't seen any lately....there is one around one's in a while. Keep checking back, I'll put more up one's in a while, these are from my home build, motion/self activated point and shoot Sony camera...thanks for watching!

i get the bullocks orioles here instead of the Baltimores but their habits are the same. the males start arriveing last week in april and the females about a week later. they go thru their mating and pair off and start nesting by mid may. to start with both males and females are at the feeders often and eat a lot of jelly and fruit and necter. but as the go off to nest the males and females take turns coming to eat 3 or 4 times a day. by then there are lots of insects and i see them on my garden and flowers catching bugs and insects and grashoppers ect. as soon as the young fledge they start bringing them to the feeders and the young ones eat often covering the feeders. by mid july the males have started leaving and they disappear for the year but the females and their young stay around till mid august to late august and they leave out to head south.