Ok, I'm done feeding ALL THE DAMN SPARROWS........DONE. 😡 😡 😡

[a kennedy]

no cardinals, no gold finches, not many woodpeckers……DONE.

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Sparrows need to eat too. Even if they're not as colorful. (nt)

[jcgoldie]

3. they are invasive and they destroy native populations

They displace martins in their homes for one and they overrun the food source for those other native birds it has nothing to do with how colorful they are.

[jcgoldie]

2. Did you try blackoil sunflower seeds?

Thats what I use and get many cardinals nuthatch junko occasional blujays and redwing blackbirds and cowbirds... sparrows and starlings leave them alone... but if you use the birdseed with the millet they will overrun the place.

[a kennedy]

6. We buy the expensive feed....mostly sunflower seeds....no corn or millet at all......

had one female cardinal just walking on the deck railing about 5 days ago…….she hasn’t been back. We had cardinals AND gold finches last year lots of them……this year none. 😢

[jcgoldie]

7. cardinals are much more active at feeders in winter where I live

Its southern Illinois don't know where you are. They are territorial so you will usually only get one pair or two at a time. But I have noticed if you feed the sunflower seeds in a big hanging feeder, when it snows all bets are off on territoriality the trees will literally fill with cards waiting their turn I have counted as many as 50 in surrounding branches with snow on the ground.

[electric_blue68]

11. That makes a great visual ! (Holiday "ornaments"!)

[samnsara]

4. i will trade you some wild turkeys for some sparrows....

[Walleye]

5. My grandfather didn't call them sparrows, he called them bullies

[hunter]

8. Sparrows are not the most common species of little brown birds at our feeder.

By weight the most common invasive bird species is the Eurasian collared dove. The native hawks and falcons find them quite tasty so our bird feeder is doing double duty.

[markie]

9. for me

it's ducks... mallards and one wood duck... it started with 2 a month ago... every day they bring a few more... around 50 at the last count... that's a lot of grain

[zanana1]

10. I used to feed the sparrows.

Hundreds at a time. I would go through a 25 lb. of birdseed every week. I know they're invasive but I love them. (I live in an apartment now so I don't have the delight of seeing a hundred or more sparrows flying into my Bittersweet vine next to the feeder).