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    Ravens

    My bird feeder has been taken over by ravens the last couple of weeks! They seem to manage the hanging feeders no problems so the bluetits and sparrows aren't getting a look in. Is there anything I can do to deter them without frightening off the others?


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    Hi Gina - are you sure they are Ravens? It is really rare for them to visit gardens and bird feeders - they are more likely to eat the birds themselves. Can you post a picture so we can identify them and help?
    Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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    • #3
      Hi Jeanie I'll try to get photo tomorrow. In mean time I looked on my bird app and wondering maybe crows. Or a type of jackdaw. Like a crow but with a grey head (which I always thought was a raven but am I wrong?).


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      • #4
        Originally posted by GinaD View Post
        Like a crow but with a grey head
        Pretty sure that'll be your jackdaw.
        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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        • #5
          Yes I think now it is a jackdaw, any ideas how to keep them off my bird feeder? 😀


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          • #6
            I have jackdaws and magpies on my feeders, they are so used to me banging on the window they have started ignoring me! My dad used to put a sort of homemade wire frame round the feeders so only the smaller birds could get through. I think I will have to try the same.
            The best things in life are not things.

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            • #7
              We used to put the feeders within a cage made from 2 wire hanging baskets, joined together to make a globe. The small birds could get through the mesh but the large birds and squirrels couldn't.

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              • #8
                Something like this perhaps?



                I think you can buy one from the RSPB website but they cost about £30

                VC's idea sounds a lot cheaper
                Last edited by scarey55; 08-06-2014, 09:04 PM.
                A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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                • #9
                  You can buy them just about anywhere*, and for less than £30, usually called "squirrel proof feeder"



                  * garden centres, discount shops, etc
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    I've seen them before just never occurred to me! Thanks all for the advice! 😀


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                    • #11
                      A friend of mine used an old large parrot cage and put the feeders inside it. The little birds get through but the big ones can't. She made one out of an old fire guard too. The reason for it though was she has a sparrow hawk which visits her garden for lunch - and he's not bothered about the feeders!
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