Great info! What do you feed to help get rid of them? I have never had a problem with them before here in the woods. And certainly never in the winter time. But this year they are tending to take over my feeders. The good thing is is that they don't seem to be doing too much damage to the cylinder feeders, although they certainly do give it a good try. I'd be happy to put out different feeds for a while if it would cause them to move along!
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I use a lot of safflower seeds and black oil sunflower seeds, they seem to be unable to crack them open with their soft beaks. When weather permitting I take my feed down for a few days also, when starlings can't find feed in your feeder they will move on. If you are using any fruit in your feed they love that also cracked corn and peanuts out of the shell, so I find that I put less of that out when they are around. The starlings love my cylinder feeder I think because last time I got one with cranberries in it. When I go to get a new one I will leave just get the seed one.
I bought a fruit cylinder feeder last time. They are often on it, but never sm to get much. I'll try making a few changes after it warms up.