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DIY Oriole Feeders

21 June, 2014 by Admin WNAC 7 Comments

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DIY Oriole Feeders — Repurpose your old candle lids to make feeders for your feathered friends!

DIY Oriole Feeders — Repurpose your old candle lids to make feeders for your feathered friends!

DIY Oriole Feeders

We are huge lovers of wild birds at my house and have several types of feeders in our backyard to attract different birds. Some attract shyer birds like blue jays and downy woodpeckers, while others attract more social birds like hummingbirds, goldfinches, chickadees, cardinals, mourning doves, sparrows, wrens … well, you get the idea. 😉

But we have never put a feeder out there to attract orioles and I’m not sure why, as I regularly saw Baltimore Orioles in my grandmother’s yard when I was a kid — they were just as common as the other songbirds. Orioles quite often “eat” from nectar feeders similar to what hummingbirds use — oriole feeders are a bit bigger and colored with orange to attract them, just as red attracts hummers — but they also LOVE grape jelly and orange halves.

A few weeks back I remembered a DIY Oriole Feeder project from many moons ago that turned old jar candle lids into oriole feeders. I have plenty of lids on hand so all I had to do was find a way to make them hang. Floral wire to the rescue! And Orioles are attracted to orange and presumably purple (the grape jelly thing), so out came the ribbon spools to dress up their feeders.

DIY Oriole Feeders — Repurpose your old candle lids to make feeders for your feathered friends!

 

Attaching the wire was the hardest part but it wasn’t difficult. I used pre-cut pieces of wire instead of on a spool so the hangers weren’t as long as I would have initially liked. Still, there was enough excess wire for me to make a half-circle to connect it to the opposite side of the lid. This is where the sparkly black ribbon came in handy, so the feeders could hang a little lower from the hooks. The ribbon also helped to hide where I twisted off the ends of the wire, as well as wave the colorful food flag to the Orioles.

I had mandarin oranges on hand instead of full-sized ones, and they ended up being perfectly sized to fit in the lids. And I ~always~ have grape jelly on hand for those impromptu PB&J sandwiches, so this project cost me nothing. A few spoonfuls of jelly and an orange half later, and the new feeders were loaded and ready to go.

DIY Oriole Feeders — Repurpose your old candle lids to make feeders for your feathered friends!

DIY Oriole Feeders — Repurpose your old candle lids to make feeders for your feathered friends! | Who Needs A Cape?

 

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  1. Emily

    21 June, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    LOVE this idea! We are bird-lovers also and feed our wildlife. I am definitely going to make something cute like these. Stopping by from the SITS Girls Facebook link-up!

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  2. Danielle

    21 June, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    Great upcycle… I always have those lids and never know what to do with them. Yay. 🙂

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  3. Ellen Tracy

    27 May, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    I love your candle lid oriole feeders. Some time ago I bought a thing called Egglettes which are supposed to make “ better” hard boiled eggs. I found them totally worthless for their intended purpose, however about two years ago I used the little cups in almost exactly the same manner as you described with your candle lids for making jelly feeders. All manner of birds where I live love that jelly, but the Orioles just crave it. It seems as though I am filling my jelly feeders at least three times a week.

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