Date: 3/16/23 5:18 am From: Paul Plotnick via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: Common Grackles on feeders
What's in your feeder? We get Grackles and Starlings from time to time but
they descend, hog the feeder for a couple of minutes, depart and never
return.
Paul Plotnick
Stamford
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:20 AM Susanne Shrader via CTBirds <
<ctbirds...> wrote:
> Frank Mantlik mentioned that 200 Grackles descended on his feeders during
> the storm. At our house near Hartford , bears have not been much of an
> issue, because our feeders are up on a pole. However the grackles have kept
> other birds away from the seed and do that for months at a time. thus, we
> sometimes have to take the feeders down and wait a few days till they go
> elsewhere, but they come back within a day or so. I think this might be a
> larger problem about putting out seeds for seed eating birds. Might we
> actually be causing an imbalance of birds like Common Grackles versus
> smaller birds that can’t access the feeders. I don’t know if anybody’s ever
> studied that, but it seems that that problem is getting worse.
>
> Susanne Shrader
> Hartford area
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