Be patient, once they find it, they'll return again and again. One of the most popular fruits are apples. Apples can attract bluebirds, cardinals, catbirds, flickers, woodpeckers, and several other birds. Bananas are especially good for attracting warblers, also tanagers, orioles, catbirds, and thrushes. It is best if the bananas are ripe.
Oranges are very tempting to orioles.
Berries of all kinds can bring in common feeder birds plus thrushes, towhees, tanagers, bluebirds, and grouse. Hummingbirds like the juice from fruits and the flies fruit attracts. Make sure you remove the fruit when it becomes spoiled. Bird Watchers Digest. The materials on this website may be copied and distributed without permission, provided that it is used for non-commercial, informational or educational purposes, and you acknowledge this site and the Hernando Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society as the source of publication.