Starlings......help! !

We have hundreds in our trees by day.
And they fly off to a caravan park for the night.
They sure are noisy!

I love all birds but we ge t no starlings here in Northumberland near the coast but plenty of noisy seagulls and fat crows. I stopped feeding birds as I had a huge rat on my lawn but im feeling sorry for them as its getting colder so I will put a feeder up again. (birds Im sorry for not the blasted rats).

Starlings are Red Data Book species, try to see the beauty of them. Maybe invest in a 'caged' feeder that they cannot get to or a ground feeder with a cage with holes only big enough for smaller birds to get through. I adore starlings.

these ones keep out the bigger birds like starlings.

Sorry starling

If you google 'large cage bird feeder uk' you will also find large ground feeders.

We've just had our first snow- and been feeding birds, including the masses of sparrows we have all year round, and all the ones arriving with the cold, all sorts of tits- chaffinches and snow finches will soon be here, I suppose.

We also feed our local sparrow hawks.... inadvertently, as they come and pick a bird or two from the feeders from time to time- they need to survive too. Nature is like that. Many more birds are killed by domestic cats... who do not need them to survive either.

Has anyone tried the lampshade type of squirrel baffle? Having just been and spent £25 on peanuts, I don't want to watch the squirrels bury most of them in the garden. I don't begrudge them eating a few though so will scatter some underneath if I can stop them emptying the feeder in a couple of hours. I tried a very expensive feeder called a Squirrelbuster, but nothing could eat from it and the nuts just went mouldy