I have so many starlings in the garden now all feeding their young you can hardly put a pin between them! They are greedy and are like a Dyson - they just vacuum the food up. The young are funny as they even follow the Sparrows around in the hope of getting fed and they just stand in the bird bath trying to work what they should do now they are there. The noise is something to behold as well. I would like less starlings and more little birds but for now my garden seems to be the day care centre for starlings.
I was getting bother from rooks and jackdaws on my fat ball feeder and seed feeder, this has done the trick to stop them and it also seems to stop starlings getting to the fat balls, not that that was my intention. I'll look to keep giving them stuff on the ground.
You could leave the suet block feeder for the starlings unguarded and get a separate fat ball feeder and put it in this. Given the shape of the suet block feeders it might be wide enough to allow the bigger birds to still get to the suet blocks if you do put it in this cage.
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Regarding feeders, I got this cage the other week-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chapelwood-Squirrel-Blocking-Cage-Feeders/dp/B004478PFW/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1528321804&sr=8-6&keywords=squirrel+cage
I was getting bother from rooks and jackdaws on my fat ball feeder and seed feeder, this has done the trick to stop them and it also seems to stop starlings getting to the fat balls, not that that was my intention. I'll look to keep giving them stuff on the ground.
You could leave the suet block feeder for the starlings unguarded and get a separate fat ball feeder and put it in this. Given the shape of the suet block feeders it might be wide enough to allow the bigger birds to still get to the suet blocks if you do put it in this cage.