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From: mikeb@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike Burger)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: oriole feeders
Keywords: sugar water
Message-ID: <8645@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 02:23:53 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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	In Oklahoma my grandfather used to keep a standard chicken
waterer (sold at feed stores to screw on the top of a Mason jar
and then be inverted to keep a circular dish filled with water)
with sugar water colored red with standard food coloring as a
regular part of his feeding station during the summer.
	It held a quart and on a hot day it would be emptied
every day!  It attracted mostly orioles who would go wild for it.
I have also seen orioles attempting to raid a hummingbird feeder.
	This was years ago and the question of the possible damage
we might be doing by offering these orioles a diet of massive amounts
of white sugar never came up.  They certainly packed it away!

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