How Do I Keep Grackles And Starlings From Eating My Birdseed? 

Humans can barely process bread properly from so much processing.. I can only imagine what it's like for the birds.. probably not a good idea...

That's too bad! Finches love safflower seed so we get tons I'm just upset because starlings have started feeding and last night it ate two baby birds I screamed, played noises It only stopped when I played a starling distress call

@@happydays5989 Those starlings are horrible. They chase off all the small birds and eat up all the food. The suet that I put out for the woodpeckers the starlings will rip apart and ruin it in minutes. They are the worst here in the spring time. I bang on the window and scare them off but they are back in a few minutes. I try to watch for them though. Bird seed is getting expensive and I don’t want to feed those evil creatures. When the farmers start planting their fields the starlings will go off and bother them for the rest of the year. Starlings were brought here from Europe by some rich guy that thought that NYC needed them. What a terrible idea. They are an invasive species and should not even be here.

@@happydays5989 JUST BUY A BB GUN. Become a Pest Hunter. Make a shooting Wall with plastic cardboard from Home Depot. Put it on a window, WITH SMALL HOLES TO LOOK AND SHOOT. Shoot From the back is better. They have great vision.. Feed, and wait for the pest birds to show up. Take them out one a day. Until they leave the American Songbirds alone. The American Manly Way to deal with thieves. Starlins, Black Birds and Europe Sparrows are your songbirds ENEMIES. "The enemy of my friends are my enemy too". HAPPY HUNTING.. See videos about bird hunting too. BE A PEST HUNTER, NOT LAZY OR COWARD CUNT.

haha idiot. I wish i was you neighbor so i could laugh at your dumbass

Me too

Did it work?

youre life was miserable before you just complained about something else., punch yourself in the crotch

I removed all food from them, hoping they leave. I'm replacing my feeder with a finch feeder.

It's not so expensive once you realize how long it lasts because the starlings aren't gobbling it all up

Me and a neighbor put out hard cat food for a few strays we've taken care of for yrs. They eat that before the cats can. I've been feeding birds in my front yard for 20 yrs this is the worst I've seen. I have a 3 gallon galvanized bowl for water put down mainly for squirrels but birds also. So far this yr I have to change water 3 times a day because these black birds mess it up. I'm going to stop feeding the birds for awhile see what happens. I put peanuts in the shell out for squirrels and the jays like those. So at least I'll still have them. I like the morning doves also and cardinals

For blue Jay's I'd get a squirel proof whole shelled peanut feeder. The Jay's love grabbing a peanut to go crack open. Even though grackles love peanuts too, they aren't a fan of having to crack the shell open

Safflower is for Cardinals only. Their beaks are tailor made for safflower. That's the beauty of safflower, if you are in a place where cardinals thrive. Sparrows will try and eat it, if there is nothing else available but you can tell the shells chewed by the sparrows are not opened efficiently and they thus waste most of it.

My cardinals and grossbeaks love it. The chickadees, finches and titmice will eat it occasionally... but the morning doves love these seeds as well and gobble them all up whole!

I agree the starlings aren't as bad for my neck of the woods as these awful grackles n cow birds n blue jays which i hate there mega food bullys n hogs n i have a bird proof squirrel feeder for my lil critters n the birds will gang up n attack squirrels n chipmunks for there stupid peanuts n trust me i have tried separating areas on my property n even scattered nuts away from the "giving tree" i call my squirrels tree but theyll hoard ever nut n then try clearing the pickle jar for the squirrels its ridiculous its gottten so bad this peanut kick my yards full of holes from the awful birds stealing all the squirrels caches instead of eating the bird food i have a pellet gun n i did get 1 bird n i felt awful but they did leave for a wk..😂

@user-dk5vj2br1o yeah, I'm a die hard bird fan but some are out of control

@@kennethwise7108 they really are idk medium sized birds seem to be my issue n my whole neighborhood has at least 2 bird feeders its like my house gets. The worst ones!

@user-dk5vj2br1o people think I'm an as$hole for saying that too but oh well

@@kennethwise7108 bro, some times theres alil too many ppl too..lol!🤦‍♀️🤣💩 i hear yah idc either my property my $$ i go thru so much .5lb peanut bags n not to mention winter x im feeding 20 wild turkeys n i luv them i stopped seeing them when spring came unlike these lazy fat birds man there pests!!

primitive morons

The grackles run everything else off, so if you have lots of grackles that’s all you have. Some of us want diversity

For the same reason it's legal to kill house sparrows and starlings... because they're aggressive non-native species that are out competing and killing off the native bird populations