Fruit Eating Birds

Adding fruit feeders to your backyard can attract many fruit eating birds that might not otherwise come to feeders. Fruit can be offered in hanging feeders, wire feeders designed for holding pieces of fruit or fruit suet, or nectar feeders for fruit eating birds.

Place orange halves in a holder to attract:

Eastern birds

Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Northern Mockingbirds
Brown Thrashers
Orchard Orioles
Baltimore Orioles
Scarlet Tanagers
Gray Catbirds
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

Western birds

Hooded orioles
Bullock’s orioles
Gray Catbirds
Western Tanagers

Grapes can be put on a cage or on a platform fruit feeder. Grapes are particularly attractive to:

Eastern birds

Northern Mockingbirds
Eastern Bluebirds
Cedar Waxwings
Gray Catbirds
Scarlet Tanagers
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
House Finches
Robins
Towhees

Western birds

Acorn Woodpeckers
Western Bluebirds
Western Tanagers
Black-headed Grosbeaks
House Finches
Towhees
Robins

Raisins can be placed in a platform feeder and are particularly attractive to:

Eastern birds

Northern Mockingbirds
Gray Catbirds
Eastern Bluebirds
Cedar Waxwings

Western birds

Western Bluebirds
Cedar Waxwings
Northern Mockingbirds

Success of feeding birds such as orioles seems to come when they are already present in the area. It may take years to attract orioles if a customer is just starting to plant their yard with fruit trees and bushes. It is always fun to see what may be attracted to yards with fruit feeders. It is always worth the effort, especially if you are rewarded by seeing these birds up close.

Mockingbirds seem to be very territorial. If you start feeding the mockingbirds, place the feeder away from existing feeders.

Planting fruit producing trees and shrubs will attract a wider variety of birds and assist them in surviving hard winters.

Robins will be attracted to cherries and crabapples.

Bluebirds will also be attracted by fruits!

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