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I have put oranges out for years and am visited by orioles often in the spring....there are three here now. They also like suet and this year, I bought some "orange zest" suets, thinking that the orioles would love them. Big mistake...*No one* is visiting my suet feeders so I looked at the label. "Orange flavoring" Does that mean artificial orange flavoring? Tomorrow the unflavored suet goes out. Martha (Usually) Birding is Westford On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 9:15 AM Maeve Kim <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Now I’m a believer! I’d heard and read for years that orioles find oranges > and the color orange irresistible, so every single year I put out an orange > plastic nectar feeder as well as some cut oranges. Once, ONCE, I saw an > oriole at a hummingbird feeder. Just once, in over thirty years. But this > year I tried again - and the orioles have been coming in groups! Yesterday > one or two males made several visits to the orange, and this morning there > were two males and a female at the same time. Their rich beautiful song is > all around us now! > Maeve Kim, Jericho Center >