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Index of Subjects Hi Suzanne and Everyone. Just an update to fill in the blanks of some of the questions I have to feild. First of all the Bullocks Oriole IS still here and I'm trying to keep it arround my feeders untill it's strong enough to move on and for those who have indicated they'd like to see it. I have had a "Birdy Pie" suet cake out since before the flock arrived along with offerings of fresh and aged orange halves. One of my feeders is also filled with sunflour seed hearts. I too have had Orioles take the above food offerings but not this group of birds. A truely fussy/spoiled bunch. I've never tried Grape Jelly and with the # of starlings (200-250 today) I don't think the Oriols would even stand a chance. I'm going to give the grape juice a try tomorrow through the day so I can monitor their responce to it. Thanks to all that have responded thus far whether on the list or privatly. I'm still open for any/more sugestions. Tom Kavanaugh Canso ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Borkowski" <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Oriols & Question > > Hi Tom; > > I had a B. Oriole here last year for about a week. A > female. Her favourite food was the Eco-crust Bird Pie > I had hanging on my front porch! She wouldn't cling > to it, but she kept darting in under it to eat up the > crumbs. > > It contained what looked like crumbled pie crust with > seeds in it, and a little suet - and the whole thing > was baked. You can get them at Sobeys, or several > other stores. I'm sure people on this list can tell > you how to make the same thing yourself. It probably > wouldn't be hard. > > Cheers; > Suzanne > > > > > > --- Terri Crane <terri.crane@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > Hi Gang. > > > > This morning our flock of Orioles had a visitor. A > > Juv. N. Shrike chased and appeared to have a go at > > eveyone of the Orioles untill one of the imm (m) > > Balt. reversed the tables and gave chase to the > > Shrike. There was a bit of a stand off then the > > Shrike was chased from the yard by the very very > > agressive (m) Oriole. > > > > I'm not sure what the total # of orioles is today > > but I did get one count yesterday morning of 15 Balt > > and at that time 1 of the adult males was missing > > and so to was the Bullocks. Terri had a max count of > > 16 less the Bullocks. So we had no less than 17 > > Oriols yesterday. Todays activity indicates that the > > # is still the same or (I hope not) larger. > > > > I've dug out an old broken Oriole feeder, made some > > repairs and hung it out last evening before dark. So > > far today they've drank over 2 cups of humming bird > > food from it (and there's still 2 hours of feeding > > left and part of that is their large last meal > > before dark). Due to the Oriole feeder there seem to > > be a bit less of a frenzy when I replenish the > > grapes. The're not as starving because the Oriole > > feeder seems to keep the edge off. > > > > My QUESTION is what would be the best "food" to fill > > the Oriole feeder with? I don't think the humming > > bird food is the best and I know that the home made > > sugar water solution is even worse (false food). > > I've thought of trying a grape juice but I was > > wondering if anyone knows of a better mix. > > > > Tom K. > > Canso > > > > > > > > > > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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