It's Oriole Season time to get your oranges sliced............

May is when the Orioles

migrate thru New England

get your feeders ready

 

 GrampaBob & Gram always had colorful birds in their yard

Red Cardinals, Orange Orioles, Yellow Finches, Blue Jays

love, love,love to watch and feed the birds at their home

 

Gram would have me put sliced oranges on nails sticking out of the pine trees

GrandpaBob would tell me about the birds,

I loved all the bright colors......not much has changed......sigh

 

  

It takes time to attract the Orioles you need to start in the beginning of May

have patience it can take 2 weeks to attract Orioles

 

 

halve them, quarter them, slice them

as long as they are fresh the Orioles will enjoy them

 

 

I have put nails in a tree, lined my deck rails,  filled an onion mesh bag

 

 

today I'm taking a metal coat hanger

 put the slices on it and hang it from a tree branch

 

 

this should keep the squirrels from taking the oranges!

the cardinals are enjoying the oranges

 

 

I'll let ya know when the first Orioles arrive 

 

 

Audubon has great information about the Orioles

Birds in Bloom has great information about attracting Orioles