Farmers shouldn't mind losing a few fruit, though. Orioles are beneficial because they also eat many harmful insects. Nectar is another favorite oriole food. Plants that attract Hummingbirds will also attract orioles. I've often seen them trying to drink from hummingbird feeders.
Orioles nest high in trees often over a stream, river, street or driveway.
Maple, cottonwood, poplar and willow are their trees of choice. The pouch nest hangs down from the tips of the branches. Attracting orioles to your backyard garden is easy if you give them what they like. Commercial oriole feeders filled with orange-flavored nectar often do the trick. Orioles will also visit platform feeders for pear halves, apple slices, grape and apple jelly and orange marmalade.