Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:19:46 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: Re: Winter Oriole MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/26/00 4:03:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, pjohn@WLGORE.COM writes: > 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, there is currently an oriole at a feeder at Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, happily drinking sugar water in the same 1 to 4 mix as hummingbird food. She is also ignoring oranges. Also, as Patty mentioned, my brother says an oriole overwintered in Iowa eating grape jelly. danny bystrak bristol, AA Co. MD wiwr@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================