Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:25:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Winter Oriole In-Reply-To: <852569C1.0073929C.00@mail1.wlgore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 03:53 PM 12/26/00, Parke wrote: >An associate from work reports a male Baltimore Oriole in his yard. He's >tried >to feed it raisins, but seems to prefer "Special K." What would be the >another >and perhaps better food to try to feed it at this time of the year? Parke, Several years ago I had two Baltimore Orioles overwinter in my yard. They preferred the peanut suet blocks and the feeder with the shelled peanut halves. I also tried oranges but they ignored them. ///////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================