how do i keep grackles out of my birdfeeders?

Answer 1

Try some of these suggestions:

1. Place a variety of feeders in your yard, including "thistle" feeders and suet feeders.

2. Put a cage or screen around your seed feeders so only smaller birds can get to the food. Build your own using chicken wire or buy one of the commercial bird feeders made especially to solve this problem.

3. Use a Hopper type feeder with a weighted perch that closes when a heavy bird (or squirrel) lands on it.

4. Keep bird seed off the ground and stop filling your platform feeder for a week. Blackbirds and Starlings may get discouraged and move on.

5. Shorten the perches on your tube feeders. The smaller birds (Goldfinches, Chickadees and Titmice) will be able to eat but larger birds will not be able to land.

6. If Starlings are eating all your suet, try a feeder that required the birds to hang upside down. Woodpeckers can eat like that, but Starlings hate it.

7. Never buy seed mixes containing milo. Blackbirds are the only birds that seem to like milo! Blackbirds also like millet and cracked corn, but few of the colorful songbirds eat these seeds. You might try offering safflower seeds instead of sunflower seeds in your tube feeders.

Answer 2

What are grackles?
N American blackbird: a noisy blackbird with metallic black feathers and a long keel-shaped tail. Native to: North America. Genus Quiscalus.
2. starling: a starling with mostly black feathers. Native to: Europe, Asia. Genera GraculaOnychognathus.

Suggestion - make a scarecrow or have one of those fake owls that hoot.

Answer 3

i'm sorry to say that that, my friend is impossible. cuz they are (really annoying) birds, and i guess they like seeds and dried fruits. look up what they eat and try to put something else in the feeders!!! that is my only guess! even though i know birds pretty well....well, i'm glad YOU know what a grackle is!! thank you!!!

wait....do they poop around your pool? or do u have a pool? huh...
yah, it might be a good idea to put a fake owl or a few around ur patio

Answer 4

What the F*ck is a grackle?

Answer 5

Maybe try changing the type of bird seed you are using.
If you want more Song Birds use more like Saffaflower seed or Sunflower seed.

Answer 6

Get yourself a good BB Gun or even better a Pellet Gun...Shoot a few at a time...Or just don't put food in the bird feeder..

Answer 7

a gracklizer! they work fabulous!!! you'll keep grackles away for miles!

Answer 8

what the hell's a grackle?

Answer 9

put a cat on top of it

Answer 10

goodluck