How to Keep Grackles, Starlings and Other Problem Birds Out of Your Feeders
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Published 2019-08-22
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All Comments (21)
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I think we're being misunderstood here, Our mission is enhance our customers back yard birding experience with quality products ,resources and services, part of those services is solving our customers problems, they ask we do everything we can to provide the solution. No one here is discriminating toward any bird species, we're proving a service. You can check our website www.gilligalloubird.com/ we have many years of solutions and resource's there. Have a merry Christmas, Bob
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Thanks, been spending months enjoying cardinals, blue jays, robins, and finches. The grackles discovered my feeders last night and today my backyard looked like a wall mart parking lot.
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I have a feeder right out my kitchen window, I got tired of the blackbirds eating all my food so I put a big wire cage around it so it was a real chore for the blackbirds to get in and out. Then I scare them every chance I get. Eventually they pretty much give up coming to my feeder. The funny thing is that the little birds seem to know that they can stay.
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Nothing against starlings, but my God, they are extemely tribal... Once one spots the food, 100 of them arrive within a minute
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Hi from Minnesota. The tip on removing bird feeders for a week to get rid of the ravenous blackbirds really worked for us. It did take another 10 days for the songbirds to come back in the afternoons, but we are noticing them now and it helped to toss a little food on the ground during the day under where the feeder sits. Thanks for the info and keep up the good work.
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I liked all your tips but we LOVE crows and it's hard to feed crows and not have Starlings. I love the way Starlings communicate and many other things about them, but there are getting to be way too many of them. The only thing I can think to do is only feed peanuts in a shell but then I'd miss the Juncos, and all the other little birds that don't eat at feeders. ahhh what a nice problem though. Now that we're retired watching the birds for hours is a joy.
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I have those cages you showed around the majority of my feeders. The feeder with safflower is the only one not bothered by the nasty nuisance birds to I didn't need to cage it. I highly recommend people try these. My little Hairy woodpeckers and nuthatches have no problem with the cages nor do the goldfinch, chickadee etc. .
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Thank you for your video and for your explanation that you're not discriminating against, but offering solutions. I love feeding my wild critters, especially smaller birds. I have noticed many starlings and grakles latley, and they're scaring away the wild woodpeckers, so I'm just happy for the information. Thank you.
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During cold winters, many birds need to start feeding early in the morning to generate enough body heat to make it through the day. Taking the feeder away until the afternoon may not always be a good option.
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Thank you for the info. Love your happy spirit. Ignore the naysayers.. they prob don’t have feeders and don’t understand the struggle
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Two magpies showed up today underneath my feeder. had never seen them before, so I named them heckle and jeckle. 😆 actually didn't mind them being around for a while they were quite polite, heckle and jeckle.
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Thanks for the vid. I have no problems keeping the squirrels off. But would still like to see the Northern Cardinals, Bluejays, & larger woodpeckers around. Also, so many sparrows around. Wouldn't mind evening out the numbers variety wise if possible.
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I live in urban Holland with a "wild" garden. It attracts many small birds during this winter but now since a week or so a large group of crows chases the small ones away. Thanks for this video.
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Thank you for your help.Backyard birding is just a wonderful way to enjoy and learn about nature ,in my case from my kitchen chair where I keep binoculars on the table The joy that it has given me over the years is well worth the price of the seed
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I put out food for any feathered friend that comes to eat. Got a few blue birds, finches and crows hanging around my haunted mansion... I let them all eat by spreading out the feeding places. It's a big yard! Room for more.
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I live in a bird sanctuary and I love our Blue Herons, Finches, Bluebirds, and our state bird, the Cardinal. I also love Hummingbirds, but you have to have the time to keep hummingbirds' feeders clean, and I am finally a new grandma. ❤
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We have a marsh bordering our backyard and the Redwing blackbirds came and stayed because we encouraged them by offering food they loved. We spent a lot of money on bird food. We decided we won’t be doing that this summer because their large presence chased all other birds away.
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I feed them all. I don't hate any of them. I love my squirrels. I love my wild doves. They are so sweet.
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We put out black oil sunflower seeds and get Grackels, Starlings, Cardinals, Mourning Doves, Dark Eyed Juncos, House Sparrows and Finches, and occasionally a Red Winged Blackbird and a Black Capped Chicakadee. We also keep plenty of food out for the squirrels. Everyone seems to get along fine.
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I noticed by feeding grackles they chase away pooping pidgins and doves! Well done!As long as one is not bird watching !Thank you!
