Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are most easily attracted to nectar feeders. Be sure to have nectar feeders out and ready as they are migrating through to their summer breeding grounds.

Hummingbirds remember feeders from last year and will visit those same spots to see if the nectar is available. They will also check out new locations; especially, if the feeders have some red coloration on them. Hummingbirds learn that many red flowers provide quality nectar sources and then show a tendency to check out red colors while foraging.

Residential hummingbirds, the ones that stay in our area to raise families, are more likely to visit feeders on a regular basis if the feeders are available when they move in. Also, place multiple feeders around your yard to make it more difficult for one hummingbird to claim and protect your feeders. TIP:  Place feeders out of sight from one another, so that one hummingbird is not able to see the other feeding. Hummingbirds are quite territorial.  Applying this placement strategy may elevate the number of Hummingbirds seen in your yard! 

  Orioles

Orioles are nectar, fruit and insect eaters. While in their tropical winter habitats, Baltimore Orioles feed on nectar from numerous flowering trees, which explains their attraction to nectar feeders upon their spring-time return to North America.  The KEY to KEEPING them in your yard for the season and to encourage nesting is to offer LIVE MEALWORMS. Once they begin the nesting process, they seek high protein foods and benefit from a quick meal to feed their young!  Offering live mealworms helps mom and dad safely and quickly find a healthy meal for their nestlings and helps reduce predation to both them and their babies by making it quick and easy. WBU-Delafield offers mealworms in a variety of sizes.  They are organic and not pumped up with steroids or chemicals.  They are the perfect addition to to your backyard feeding charcurterie board :) 

They usually stay hidden in the trees eating and singing their beautiful whistling notes. They can be drawn down from their perches with foods like nectar, grape jelly, orange slices, mealworms and Jim’s Birdacious® Bark Butter®.

  Tanagers

Sightings of tanagers are on the rise, including Summer, Scarlet and Western Tanagers. Like orioles, tanagers tend to hide in the trees and are partial to foods like suet, Bark Butter, fruit and jelly.