Copper Fruit and Jelly Feeder
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Description
Entice orioles
with fruit and jelly or bluebirds with tasty
mealworms!
The Copper Fruit and Jelly Feeder is great for feeding orioles and other
fruit/jelly loving songbirds. Fill the Pyrex cup with grape jelly and spiral on
oranges or apples. Orioles like them both! You can also fill the cup with
mealworms to attract bluebirds, or seed, water, peanut butter, or suet.
Handcrafted out of solid heavy gauge copper. The Pyrex cup clips in and out for
easy cleaning and filling. Makes a wonderful gift for the backyard birding
enthusiast!
THE DURABILITY OF COPPER
One of the most resilient metals on Earth, copper doesn’t rust or become
brittle and crack like plastic or wooden feeders do. Our feeders’
functionality and durability make them heirloom quality - feeders you can hand
down to your children and grandchildren.
Proudly handcrafted in the USA by skilled
artisans!
Custom made to order - Being handmade, these hangers
take longer to create than machine made, mass produced items. The handmade
aspect of our hangers is what adds value, uniqueness, beauty and durability
to every work of art. Please allow up to 2 weeks for shipment.
Dimensions: 9" x 8.5" x 8"
Fruit, Jelly and Mealworm
Feeders
WHAT FRUIT TO USE
We find apples to be the best fruit to use because a wide variety of birds
eat them. Oranges are a favorite of Orioles. You can also use grape
clusters. Cardinals love pomegranates and hard dinner rolls can be spun on
the coils too.
WHEN TO START
Early spring is the best time to put out your feeder. That is when birds
start looking for nest sites and if you put out a ready source of food, they are
more likely to nest in your area. When mama and papa birds have nestlings
to feed, they will feed on the apples, fly back to the nest to feed their young
and repeat this many times a day until their babies fledge the nest. Then
you will often see the parents bring their young to your apple feeders and feed
their young right in front of you.
TO USE YOUR FEEDER
First peel away a portion of the skin of the apple to give the birds access
to the inside. Many birds that like apples don’t’ have a sharp enough beak
to pierce thru the skin. If it’s hot and dry, score the open surface of the
apple to keep it from developing a second skin. Position the apple over the
tip of the corkscrew coil and push lightly to pierce thru, then applying light
pressure spin the apple onto the coil. Then hang the feeder out where birds
can see it.
FEEDING ORIOLES
You can also use our fruit feeders to feed Orioles their favorite fruit: the
orange. Just cut an orange in half and spiral it on the coil open end
up. Orioles will eat all the pulp right down to the peel. The FRUIT
AND JELLY FEEDER (HHFRJL) gives you a removable cup to feed Orioles their other
favorite food - grape jelly at the same time as the oranges. The cup’s
copper clip lets you remove the cup for cleaning and filling then clips back
securely in place.
FEEDING BLUEBIRDS
Bluebirds and other birds love eating mealworms from our food cups. The
worms can’t climb out because of the slick sides. You can also put other
foods in the cups such as peanut butter, suet, seed or water.