Wouldn't you stay away from Mc Donalds if someone was waiting to pick you off.
To effectively keep black birds away from your feeder, you can try using feeders designed to deter larger birds, such as tube feeders with small perches. You can also try using feeders with cages or baffles to prevent black birds from accessing the food. Additionally, placing the feeder in an open area away from trees or shrubs can make it less attractive to black birds.
To keep black birds away from your feeder, you can try using feeders designed to deter larger birds, such as tube feeders with small perches. You can also try using safflower seeds or nyjer seeds, which black birds may not prefer. Additionally, placing feeders in open areas away from trees or shrubs can make it harder for black birds to access the feeder.
There would be 12 birds left at the bird feeder after the initial group of 3 birds was chased away by the 12 incoming birds.
To effectively keep black birds away from your bird feeder, you can try using feeders designed to deter larger birds, such as tube feeders with small perches. You can also try using safflower seeds or nyjer seeds, which are less appealing to black birds but still attract smaller birds like finches and chickadees. Additionally, placing the feeder in a more open area away from trees or shrubs can make it harder for black birds to access.
To keep mourning doves away from a bird feeder with safflower seeds, you can try using a feeder with smaller openings that only allow smaller birds to access the seeds. Another option is to place the feeder in a more enclosed space or add a baffle to the feeder pole to deter larger birds like mourning doves. Finally, offering a separate feeder with seeds specifically tailored for mourning doves may help attract them away from the safflower seed feeder.
To effectively keep unwanted birds away from your feeder, you can try using deterrents like feeders with cages, changing the type of food you offer, or using physical barriers like spikes or netting.
Nope. This might scare them away if it's too loud. Putting out a bird feeder should attract birds.
i think shoo it away
Many birds fit that description. Most birds will chase away rivals, but a few are especially territorial. Northern Mockingbird- Can be very territorial, especially during nesting season. Will chase away birds, squirrels, and humans with hisses. Nuthatches- Mates will keep out other pairs in order to get the most food. Chickadees and Titmice- While small, a flock of these tiny birds will mob against a larger foe and drive it away.
Not in my experience. I put up a four perch feeder on a tree in myfront yard. A squirrel reached over to feed from it. I chased it away. The birds still came at feeding time to eat. I just wish there was a way to keep the House Sparrows away from it. They are so aggressive when they feed. Attacking each other and the Cardinals that I do attract. I extended the feeder out more to keep the acrobatic squirrel out and taped off three of the perches. This kept the crowding down and the cardinals have more to eat when they come now. Eddie, Detroit, Michigan
Whenever a cat is outside and posing a potential threat to the feeder, turn on a sprinkler close by. Birds are more than happy to get wet while they're eating, but cats will definitely stay away. Also consider this method if your neighbor's cat considers your feeder an invitation to dinner.
Keep Blackbirds Away from Bird FeedersMy friend who is a member of the police department swat team uses an air rifle.You could paint the feeders blue & red. This may not keep the black birds away, but it should draw more blue birds & cardinals. Bluebirds are very territorial and if you get enough of them, they might run the black birds off.Use safflower seeds in the feeder, instead of corn or sunflower seeds. Blackbirds and sparrows don't like them, but cardinals do.After feeding birds for 15 years, I can tell you that there is no successful way to keep the blackbirds away from your feeders. The best you can (which is better than the two ways above) is to invest in the feeders that only allow the small birds to eat. Some have weighted ledges and are designed to keep squirrels out, but also make it difficult for the heavier big birds. And some have a cage like apparatus around the feeder that allows the little birds to enter to the feeder but keep the big birds out. However, even this is only partially successful, because there will still be ground feeders and blackbirds that will come and sit hoping to figure out a way to eat your seed.