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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Some great specific information on plant and wildlife connections.
A Guide to Luring Warblers, Tanagers, Orioles, and Grosbeaks to Your Yard | Audubon Quote:
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Grub
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: WI
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My Parents attract Orioles with grape jelly. On porch deck in an old aluminum pie dish. You'd be surprised how many other birds and animals like grape jelly.
Some of the best advice is to plant a various variety of flowering/seeding plants in garden. Or better yet get rid of yard/grass and plant native bushes/flowers/grasses. |
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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I agree. Lots of seed and fruit producers and no chemicals so that the insect population is stable. With our urban garden much of the wildlife is birds and bugs. I'm good with that. Even mosquitoes are food.
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Think I'll try a tray of jelly myself. It's sounding pretty inviting.
Will a cardinal come to oranges like the Baltimores? I heard the first call just a few days ago. Spring is breaking! The redwings are back, the geese, the ducks, and just yesterday ROBINS!
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Grub
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: WI
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Redwings are back here, the geese never leave and we have seen robins for a week or two. Saw a woodchuck a couple of days ago and chipmunks have been out for a couple of weeks already. I'm patiently waiting for the first sign of spring wildflowers in the woods. |
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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LOTS of blackbirds today. What a welcoming chorus in the trees.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I used to put out grape jelly on occasion. I bet it does work better than oranges...but, with all of that added sugar in grape jelly (I actually used to use jam), I switched to just the oranges.
Thanks for the reminder, maybe I should start putting them out again. I've had Baltimore Orioles nesting here last several years. I'm looking forward to having them back again.
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Hippie Gardener
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Michigan
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Grape jelly works better than oranges here. We don't usually have much luck with orioles in the spring, but we get some juveniles that hang around for awhile in the late summer. They love the grape jelly!
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