Starlings are right fucking bullies sometimes!

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They are squaring up to the robin, family of blue tits, sparrows and blackbirds. One of the bastards tried to take on the rooks in the garden last week. They don't care, they're like the rottweiler of the garden bird in my garden, in fact I think they would happily take on my rottie if he wasn't scared of them. None of the other birds are getting a look in with the food, how can I put them off?!

And the shrieking they do sounds like something is being killed in the garden.

Little Bird Syndrome. Proper chippy little sods. They kick off with the wood pigeons and magpies. One landed next to one of my cats to eat food the other day. Good job it was Mr Menacer of Butterflies not Sir Scourge of Starlings.

we call them the 'squabbling gobblings-' the fledglings are rapacious!

they hoover up all the food on the ground feeders and have learnt how to cling on to the hanging feeders, though at the moment cant gobble all the food in them --

having said that, they are entertaining

we feed special treats like mealworms, sunflower hearts and raisins very early morning and quite late evening , as the starlings aren't around then, but the robin and blackbirds are

I'm worried that my wee Robin (Mr Robin if you will) will abandon me for a garden without so many of the little sods.

I get a lot of starlings too, I bought cages for around some of my feeders to give the little birds a safe place, I then don’t fill up the non caged feeders as often and they eventually move on, they then come and go sporadically but if find no accessible food they don’t hang around