Date: 05/21/2019

Number: 1

The “banquet buffet” area by the south window, and next to a small cherry tree (for easy perching) is busy this evening. Essentially banquet food and water is available on a tall garden urn (about 28 inches high) which has a 30 inch round glass top placed over the opening of the urn, and then a circular rubberized brown landscape piece—designed to go around the base of tress, sitting on top of the glass—for a non-skid surface.

Fresh sliced oranges are spread on the improvised table, and there is a large, shallow, clay, saucer filled with water and a small stone—it’s used for drinking and bathing. A round Mosaic sphere feeder hangs next to the table filled with live meal worms, and a HummZinger feeder hangs nearby.

It’s common to see a female oriole enjoying oranges on the banquet table, a chick-a-dee or tit mouse over the oriole, enjoying live meal worms from the small hanging sphere feeder, and humming birds at the same time.

A “banquet area” can easily be replicated, with items from Home Depot. A circular plywood top could be used instead of glass. A banquet area, near a window, could provide Journey North hosts with great bird-behavior-watching opportunities and fun.

Sanford, MI

Latitude: 43.7 Longitude: -84.4

Observed by: Tilly
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