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From: donnam@thor.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Donna Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Questions on Feeding Orioles
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Date: 9 May 89 15:30:16 GMT
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In article <2950013@hpcndaw.HP.COM> jbh@hpcndaw.HP.COM (Joel Hurmence) writes:
>All this talk of hummingbirds makes me envious :-(.  We do not get many
>hummingbirds where I live on the Colorado plains, but we do get
>a good number of northern orioles (Bullock's race).  I am told that
>orioles are attracted to sugar water feeders like hummingbirds.
>Has anyone out there had any experience with this?  Do they take the
>same sugar water solution as hummingbirds?  What kind of feeder
>should be provided (I assume a perch is required)?  Is there a
>preferred location for the feeder?  Thanks in advance for the info!
>

	I have both hummers and orioles feeding from the same feeders.
	The hummers (naturally) don't have any trouble feeding from
	the hummingbird feeders, but the orioles have trouble hanging
	onto the feeder.  They (orioles) do better on the multi-feeders
	that have perches.  However, when they leave the feeder, it
	swings violently and nectur is lost.  To help the orioles, I
	have positioned several feeders near thing they and perch on:
	a lath house, branches of trees, etc.  This works great.

	Several stores locally have "oriole" feeders and nectur.  They
	really are just bigger hummer feeders with perches.  They are
	orange or yellow.  (Orange and yellow attrack oriole as red
	attracks hummers.)  The nectur is colored orange.  Instructions
	on the feeder package state the a nectur of 1 part sugar to 6 
	parts water with a little orange food coloring and orange flavoring
	it the formula.  I have seen these feeders in a couple of
	the higher quality nursery catalogues.

	But, as I said earlier, orioles around here like the hummer feeders.
	

Donna
donnam@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM