Getting rid of grackles eating seed at bird feeders isn’t easy. Grackles are determined birds. But I have two strategies to get rid of them or at least reduce their visits: Pick the right seed and the right feeder! This is what I do each spring.
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Cedar Waxwings: Usually I’m not thrilled when huge flocks of birds descend on the yard, displacing our “regulars” from feeders and birdbaths. But when fifty-six (at least!) Cedar Waxwings visited, I was happily excited. Unlike big flocks of Common Grackles, European Starlings and Brown-Headed Cowbirds, this crowd was not aggressive towards the other birds and didn’t displace them. They didn’t want anything from the feeders after all. They didn’t mess with the other birds and the other birds didn’t mess with them. They were just there to drink.
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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When Common Grackles camped out on my feeders in the spring, I got a Nuttery Globe Feeder to give smaller birds a chance to eat. Cage feeders like this one are sometimes the only way to keep aggressive nuisance birds from dominating feeders.
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
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