[TN-Bird] convincing orchard orioles to stay

From: Joan C Reese/SPEC/PS/EXT/UTIA <jreese5@xxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:13:52 -0500
Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
731 425 4767 email  jreese5@xxxxxxx

Last year and this year, I managed to tempt a pair of orchard orioles to
stay for the summer (I live in Chester County), by keeping oranges and
grape jelly available. I also occasionally put out strawberries and grapes.
I'm sure this is a sin, but I do it anyway!

I had no Baltimore orioles visiting this year, last year had several, but
they did not linger. I'm sure that last year they were in desperate need
because of the Easter freeze, and were glad to find my hummingbird feeders,
flowers and oranges.

When the orchard orioles first showed up this year, they perched in the
middle of my magnificent 'Alabama Crimson' trumpet honeysuckle, and tried
to defend it from the several hummingbirds that thought they owned it. If
you can find this particular cultivar of Lonicera sempervirens, it is in
constant bloom throughout the summer, unlike the typical, which is usually
just a spring bloomer. I saw 'Alabama Crimson' in 3 gallon pots. at the
Home Depot just this side of Nashville and bought another. Also Growild
Nursery in Fairview carries it usually, that is where I got my first one,
and Growild is having their open house this weekend. Usually they are
wholesale only, but the public is invited to shop there this weekend. You
can also find

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