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Showing Original Post only (View all)We put out grape jelly today for our bird friends (many photos) [View all]
Last edited Thu Mar 26, 2015, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Edit: These photos are from previous years, not this season.
It is time for our oriels to show up. This Saturday we will put out the hummingbird feeders. We get a great selection of birds because Fontenelle Forest is on the other side of our back fence: http://www.fontenelleforest.org/
Last week raccoons ruined an old Shepard's crook hanger. I had to go buy another heavy duty version. That gives us a place to put a hummingbird swing.
The new heavy duty top looks like this.
We use this jelly because it has no HFC. Be sure you get the label marked natural.
Delicious, bold fruit taste
No high-fructose corn syrup
No preservatives
No artificial flavors or colors
Also available in convenient, kid-friendly squeeze package
You can find this at the local bird store. It is no longer available in gallon cans. We would go through 2 every year.
Here is the feeder we got at a democratic fund raiser auction. Hand made by (Gardens by) Nancy. The next year by coincidence Nancy took care of my mom in hospice. The mushroom top used to be straight across. It got pushed up by a Pileated woodpecker. We left it like that for when he comes back for more.
Oriels, Tanagers, and more come in for the jelly.
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OMG! I LOVE this!!! Our little birds' nest is now officially back in use again
calimary
Mar 2015
#12
I definitely won't be making one; I prefer the looks of the baffles to the cages.
No Vested Interest
Mar 2015
#32
I am in MN also. How do you do it? Just put it in the feeder? What kinds of jellies?
glinda
Mar 2015
#37
Had a red-breasted grosbeak eating last year's buckthorn berries this morning...
HereSince1628
Mar 2015
#45