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.. 15858 First Avenue S. #106 Burien, WA 98148 (206) 241-3201 Store Map & Hours Shop Online Your Local Backyard Bird Feeding Experts Menu Burien, WA Store Map & Hours Shop Online Home Nature Centered Podcast Daily Savings Club Bug of the Month: Orchard Mason Bee Nature Happenings: May Bird Walk with Barbara Bird Links American Birding Association National Audubon Society Rainier Audubon Society Audobon Flyways Audobon Native Plant Database Connect with Us Email Us Facebook Customer Reviews Dealing with Blackbirds, Doves and Pigeons Sometimes you just have too many blackbirds, doves and pigeons. They can eat more than their share of food and chase other birds away. However, you can be a seasonally savvy hobbyist by anticipating the arrival of your problem birds and implementing the following solutions to keep these birds from monopolizing your feeders. The Right Food We offer a variety of foods to help you deal with nuisance birds at your feeders. Feed black oil sunflower seeds in the shell or the larger, harder-shelled striped sunflower seed. Both are difficult for sparrows and starlings to open. Instead of sunflower seed, offer only safflower seed. Blackbirds and starlings do not seem to like this seed and usually leave it alone. Offer high quality blends in tube feeders and consider removing the feeder’s perches. Small birds can land on the seed ports just fine, while larger birds can hang on to the port for only a short time and thus eat less food. Offer only pure rendered suet cakes as European Starlings often ignore them. Starlings are attracted to the other ingredients (like peanuts) in suet-blend cakes more than just plain suet. Don’t offer foods containing cracked corn and millet that are favorites of House Sparrows, European Starlings, Rock Pigeons, grackles and blackbirds. Feeder Solutions Deter larger birds from visiting your existing feeder by adding an On-Guard™ wire mesh cage. Our On-Guard solutions are designed to allow smaller birds access but prevent doves, pigeons, even blackbirds from reaching the food in a feeder. We offer a variety of cages that easily fit on our seed tube, finch, peanut, suet and some of our specialty feeders. Solution Feeders We offer a variety of feeders that help you feed only the birds you want. EcoTough® Upside-down Suet Feeder - This feeder is designed to allow birds to feed from below, a comfortable practice for woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees and other clinging birds but difficult for starlings. Dinner Bell™ feeder - Use this versatile feeder to offer a number of different foods. The Dinner Bell’s adjustable dome can be raised and lowered to allow access for smaller birds. The Eliminator™ and Fundamentals Squirrel-proof feeders. Both of these feeders are weight-sensitive and will close off access to the food when heavier visitors, such as pigeons and most doves, sit on a perch. Next bird walk 6/15/24 learn more Nature Happenings : May learn more Bug of the Month: Orchard Mason Bee learn more Home Shop Online Customer Reviews Daily Savings Club WBU Gift Cards Balance Check WBU Email Subscriptions Own a Franchise © 2024 Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Accessibility Statement Privacy Statement Legal Notice Allergen...