I use the cheapest grape jelly I can find, and have not had an oriole pass it up, or a catbird for that matter. However, I have read that the jelly jars are dangerous to use. Once the jelly gets to a low level, the bird can get caught in the jar as it goes in and can get trapped and die. A few places have discontinued selling them. Something to think about. I use an oriole feeder I bought on ebay a few years ago. It has 2 cups for jelly, and two places for oranges. It's also covered and is made of recycled plastic. The birds love it.

2 & 3 yrs ago only had 1 male come to nectar feeder for a couple weeks. last year had both male and female come to grape jelly and nectar feeder for a couple weeks also. this year we set out 3 feeding stations with nectar feeder, grape jelly and a bowl of diluted grape jelly. had multiple males and females coming to all 3 feeders. the males likes solid grape jelly the females likes the diluted grape jelly. our first sighting for orioles were may 3rd. they stopped coming by may 25th. they disappeared for about 2 weeks and returned June 6th. by June 30th starting seeing baby orioles. we have been blessed to see parents and babies playing and flying from tree to tree in the trees that surround our property and also feeding at 1 particular feeding station.

We finally have them....North Missouri! We live in the country. Two years ago we had a baby oriole fall into the bed of our truck and a male tried to coax him into flying out but we never saw that he made it out; he kept falling where we were unable to get him When Winter came that year I found the nest hanging in that tree he had fallen out of. Then this year I found another nest still in the tree but it had to be a different one as the location had changed. Last year I put out the jelly feeder but I lost interest in it because I never saw anything there. I didn't even put out a nectar feeder. But they must have been around thus the nest. So this year, my husband said he had seen them so I put out the jelly jar feeder. It is working! I added some oranges a couple days ago and they have found it and now I'm seeing several. I have seen 2 females at one time and 3 males for sure so I don't know how many we actually have. I am paying attention to new bird sounds and hearing them for the first time. I am so excited!! lol They are hitting the nectar feeder too. Yippee! I have a question though....there have been 2 birds fighting to get the jelly and I don't know what they are; never have seen them before. They are smaller, probably sparrow size with black heads, back and wings but have dark rust breasts. Any ideas?

Nice color combos in that shot. tj