He eats all he can, then he sits on the fence and watches the feeders. He chases off anyone else that tries to eat; house sparrows, the little orange-crowned warbler, the cardinals, the big golden-fronted woodpecker, the thrasher; and thrashers are badass. He even chases off the much bigger green jays; and who chases away a jay!
We searched for a solution. How can all the other birds feed in peace? We watched the mockingbird to see what he was eating, when he stopped long enough to eat. Suet. Mostly he was eating suet out of the suet cage, so we moved that fifteen feed away, and closer to the fence the mockingbird perches on. That did it! The mockingbird protects the suet and all the other birds feed in peace on the seed feeder.
Did we just outsmart a mockingbird?
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