Starling decoys

[Ravenred]

Just a few images of my spread befor cleaning up the starling problem in my neighbors feeders. 

 

[AirSupply]

Was it successful?

 

[Hookster]

Personally never seen a starling eat seed? 

 

[pecor]

Me either, Grackles once in awhile but not starlings? 

 

[JohnL57]

They sure do love lay pellets for poultry-I was feeding and gathering eggs for a land tenant and noticed a huge increase in feed consumption coupled with a decrease in egg production. A morning's worth of observation alerted me to a flock of about 200 starlings that would mob the feeder, literally crawling over each other to get at the feed. A couple dozen dead birds thanks to my Marauder and a scarecrow eliminated the problem. They're very skittish around here now for some reason.....

 

[Ravenred]

That’s what was going on here. If you look close you’ll see the feed pellets in the feeder. They were cleaning out the feeder in like 3 days. Over 100 birds I’d guess. Only got 10 before they got smart. 

 

[Davidt]

Do you have success getting starlings to decoy? I've tried , I've had limited success but it's difficul. I've even tried a fox pro caller along side the decoys.