One question we often get asked is what about rain and why don’t you have a cover over the feeder to prevent the rain getting into the jelly cups. They will bring their young to the feeders before migrating south at the end of summer. We manage to keep 2 – 3 oriole pair feeding here and nesting. We find the orioles will feed from the orange slices at the beginning of the season but will not longer feed from them once summer approaches. You can also make a feeder to hole the traditional orange slices. We buy the squeeze bottles of grape jelly from the Dollar Story. We have found that grape jelly has worked best for us for the orioles. Our homemade feeder mimics this type of preferred feeding behavior. We feel this is a more natural way of feeding for this bird. We have found that many of the commercial oriole feeders you find in some of the popular bird feeding stores just do not work very well. Usually around the last week in April and first week in May the rose-breasted grosbeaks, ruby-throated humming birds, and Baltimore orioles start showing up at this feeding station.įor the past several years we have had great success at attracting the Baltimore orioles with a simple oriole feeder we constructed from simple building materials, and you can too! The spring migration is one of our most active times at our PA Bird Feeder 2 feeding station located in the woods of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Making an oriole feeder for the spring migration

Oriole bird feeder