Here are seven tips for dealing with grackles.

How to discourage grackles. Grackles may be attracted to your garden, lawn area or song bird feeders as a food source. Remove immediately to help get rid of starlings. (i had already previously swapped safflower into the.

Provide them with the food they dislike, like thistle. To feed finches, fill hanging tube feeders with only nyjer seed (thistle). First of all stop using platform feeders.

To keep grackles, pigeons and other unwanted visitors away, we have to make our backyards less attractive and offer less or limited. Place the drops about an inch (2.5 cm) from the edge of the. But i have two strategies to get rid of them or at least reduce.

Build a cage around the bird feeder. Offer massive amounts of cheap food that grackles can’t resist, such as corn, positioned at least 15 feet away (4.5m) from your other bird. In order to discourage them from hanging around, we recommend removing all access to food and standing water such as bird feeders, bird baths and uncovered waste.

For example, using auditory, visual, and. Grackles love it when there are being fed by people. Put a cage around it:

You might not mind grackles eating the feed you put out, but grackles tend to scare other smaller birds away and grackles can bully smaller birds for more food. Don’t use tray feeders or feeders with platforms that allow grackles to land. To get rid of grackles and blackbirds, supply food they won’t eat.