No matter where you live, you can attract a larger variety of birds to your yard with fruit. Birds have a natural fondness for fruit. Providing fruit can attract otherwise reluctant birds to your feeders such as orioles, tanagers, or warblers.
Summer is an especially good time to offer fruit.
Many of the fruit eating birds spend the winter in the tropics, but in the summer they are back looking for new sources of food. Fruit can be offered either fresh, frozen, or dried. Almost any variety can be used. Big fruits like oranges, should be cut in half. Impale the halves on a stick or limb, or use a nail to attach the fruit to a tree, fence post, feeder, or even a deck.