Here in S.E. Michigan, I've got lots of finches, juncos, chickadees and a few cardinals.
I hung a frozen block of bacon grease which the birds liked but when the weather turned warmer, it melted and glopped onto the ground. While the little birds ignored it, that turned into a free for all for flocking starlings which apparently love that stuff.
Where it glopped behind my deck, I can't see the starlings so I created another glop of grease off the deck underneath my finch feeders where I can sight from my dining room table with my .22 air rifle thru the back deck doorwall. Shot about a dozen of those damn starlings yesterday and today............
“Shot about a dozen of those damn starlings yesterday and today............ “
There’s a big fat rabbit living on the property that I’m tempted to dispatch for the purpose of not having follow the dog-rabbit chase into the briar patch that seems to happen at least once a year.