I feed birds, but lately a mob of boat-tailed grackles have taken to overstaying their welcome- they have bullied the smaller birds away and are eating me out of house and home seed-wise. I can’t shoot them because that would be illegal and i don’t own a gun anymore. Any help would be appreciated
I live in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and I’ve been fascinated by birds for as long as I can remember. Recently, my grandfather and I built two plastic-bottle birdfeeders. We don’t usually see a lot of blue jays, but they *do* live in the area. I want to attract as many different species as possible. Will standard mixed bird feed work, or is there anything special to attract specific birds in the area? A few examples of some of the birds that I want to attract are blue jays, robins, chipping sparrows, other sparrows, finches, doves, and common grackles (locally known as “blue-headed blackbirds”). It doesn’t have to be just those species, though.
Anyway, an answer would really be appreciated. Thanks for the help.
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I have a backyard birdfeeder, and want to know how to attract different birds than I am getting. I am using mixed feed, also have a suet feeder, and I put out corn for the squirrels and birds.For the first couple of weeks, there were a couple of house finches and a downy woodpecker, along with cardinals, sparrows, doves, blue jays, grackles and juncos. But now, it seems the starlings are taking over. They’ve figured out how to eat out of the feeder, as well as from the suet, and run the smaller birds off. I wouldn’t mind feeding them too if they weren’t such bullies. The juncos are gone for the year, but I haven’t seen the woodpecker or finches for awhile. I plan to get a finch feeder, but is there anything else I can to to encourage different birds to come?
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I have a backyard birdfeeder, and want to know how to attract different birds than I am getting. I am using mixed feed, also have a suet feeder, and I put out corn for the squirrels and birds.For the first couple of weeks, there were a couple of house finches and a downy woodpecker, along with cardinals, sparrows, doves, blue jays, grackles and juncos. But now, it seems the starlings are taking over. They’ve figured out how to eat out of the feeder, as well as from the suet, and run the smaller birds off. I wouldn’t mind feeding them too if they weren’t such bullies. The juncos are gone for the year, but I haven’t seen the woodpecker or finches for awhile. I plan to get a finch feeder, but is there anything else I can to to encourage different birds to come?
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Tagged backyard, backyard birdfeeder, birdfeeder, birds, blue jays, bullies, cardinals, corn, couple, doves, downy woodpecker, Feed, feeder, finch feeder, finches, grackles, house, house finches, juncos, sparrows, squirrels, starlings, suet, suet feeder, woodpecker
I set my camera out under a hanging bird feeder……. The result is 3 squirrels, some starlings, grackles, sparrows, finches, a mourning dove, a blue jay, and one sneaky neighborhood cat! Lots of bird noises…some ambient music….and some auto-focus noises too…enjoy.
