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.
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 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.
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.
To effectively keep black birds away from your feeders, you can use feeders with smaller openings, offer food that black birds don't prefer, such as nyjer seed or safflower seed, and place feeders in locations that are less accessible to larger birds.
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
Keep feeder away from trees and mounted on metal rod
Just scare it away OR you can build another bird feeder This is not an answer. We have several feeders and they fly to all of them and keep all the birds away. Obviously you're not an expert. According to the staff at WBU--stop using black oil sunflower seeds--in fact clean out the feeders to no smell or residue is left. I did this and almost all my cowbirds are gone. They are feeding on what they find that was left on the ground. I had dozens and now it is down to a couple every now and then
To effectively keep black birds away from your feeders, you can try using feeders with smaller openings, offering food that black birds don't prefer, such as thistle or safflower seeds, and placing feeders in areas that are less accessible to larger birds. Additionally, using deterrents like scare tactics or physical barriers can also help discourage black birds from visiting your feeders.
To effectively keep black birds away from your property, you can try using visual deterrents like shiny objects or scarecrows, installing physical barriers like netting or spikes, and removing food sources that attract them.