Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!Unify.com!grp From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Are oriole "feeders" fakes? Message-ID: <1991May28.163428@Unify.com> Date: 28 May 91 23:34:28 GMT References: <1991May24.213728.23714@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> <714@cronos.metaphor.com> Sender: news@Unify.Com (news admin) Reply-To: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 45 In article <714@cronos.metaphor.com>, pstevens@Metaphor.COM (Paul Stevens) writes: > > In article <1991May24.213728.23714@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>, tfisher@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Tom Fisher) writes: > |> From article , by rk30+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ruth Kline): > |> > an argument I'm having with my sister. She just > |> > bought an oriole feeder, built on the same design > |> > as hummingbird feeders except the liquid is orange > |> > rather than red and this one has the design of > |> > orange slices on it. > |> > |> A couple of years ago, someone gave me an oriole feeder such as > |> you describe. I followed all the directions, hung the thing > |> up from a tree branch, and waited - and waited - and waited. As > |> far as I could tell, there never were any takers. The solution > |> finally fermented and I threw the thing away. We do have > |> Northern (I still prefer to call them "Baltimore") Orioles around > |> but they simply were not attracted. That's my experience. > > I have some friends who live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mts > in California. They say that the orioles there have feed from their > hummer feeder. The orioles take off the insect protector from the feeder > to better get their beaks in. I've also seen orioles feed from hummer > feeders by "rocking" the feeder to get the juice to dribble out. > Last year, I had to replace my Hummer feeders with a different design. The orioles would clean it out in about 5 hours!!! Guess where I live! Georgetown California, heart of the Sierra Nevada foothills! > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Paul Stevens {apple|decwrl}!metaphor!pstevens > Metaphor Computer Systems pstevens@metaphor.com > Mountain View, CA -- --- Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com Unify Corporation Be good and never poison people