The Perky-Pet Lavender Field Top-Fill Decorative Glass Hummingbird Feeder ($21) has ports designed to keep bees out of the feeder's nectar. Its top-fill design makes it easy to fill.

What Foods Do Orioles Eat? Orioles don’t eat seeds and won’t visit a traditional bird feeder. A Baltimore oriole’s diet consists of fruit, nectar, and insects.

Clever, huh. Something has happened this year, however, that has brought more orioles to feeders -- and the yards that hold them -- for the first time. In short, the birds are desperate.

Things To Do Home + Garden It’s time to put up the oriole feeders Male hooded orioles have a distinctive back face and throat with a bright orange-yellow hood for which it is named.

Dear Ruth: The bird with the yellow breast was probably an oriole, which is a nectar feeder. You can purchase oriole feeders, which have perches and bigger holes to accommodate their bigger beaks.