The grackles stop by our trees daily for a few hours, but not regularly. I
don't do anything. However, I have stopped feeding birds with seed. I plant a
lot of seed bearing plants for finches and other assorted birds. There's
nothing like seeing a flock of finches swinging on the tops of the sunflowers in
the morning.

If the birds are indeed coming to your yard just for the feeder, I would say to
take it down for a while. Because of all this rain, there is plenty of wild
food for all bird species, right now.



On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 01:59:39 GMT, "Ms. Tee" wrote:

For decades our neighborhood has had lots of mourning doves -- gives us a
"stereo" effect when they really get to cooing! Now it seems these nasty
assed grackles are moving in and causing the doves to move out...any
suggestions on removing these nasty birds?

I thought about shooting them with a gun but it's illegal in the city
limits....
I was told that bb shot just bounces right off the little *******s -
Any ideas that are legitimate and make sense? (ie sending them all to Iraq
is a nice thought but impractical)

Thanks, Cheers, Tee