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Birders

postulater

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4. If you're after nuthatches, woodpeckers etc.

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:39 PM

Feb 2013

you might try hanging the feeder from a string so it is dangling in the air.

The nuthatches and peckers love that but the grackles are so big they might object and give up. They don't seem like the hanging-upside-down kind of bird.

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can you tell me how to discourage grackles from my suet station? [View all] grasswire Feb 2013 OP

I have seen seed feeders inside a cage that kept the larger birds away. Arkansas Granny Feb 2013 #1

Good luck. Curmudgeoness Feb 2013 #2

I've changed my seed type from time to time Trascoli Feb 2013 #3

If you're after nuthatches, woodpeckers etc. postulater Feb 2013 #4

I am having the opposite problem. Jamastiene Feb 2013 #5

holy moley! grasswire Feb 2013 #6

I guess I'm pretty lucky where I'm at Trascoli Feb 2013 #7