That's great news!

I'm getting lots of starlings and grackles now. I don't mind a few of them but when they take over the feeders then I get annoyed. The cardinals have a harder time feeding. I do have caged feeders for the smaller birds.

I hate those buggers!!

Perhaps you know more than mother nature

usually when the grackles and starlings get done being grackles and starlings, they leave the area and the other, more lovable birds come back.

Grackles are alright, but like most other Icterids, tend to travel in large, voracious groups. But, so do house finches. The only difference I think is stomach size. I think they can even be kind of pretty.

As an introduced species, starlings I have a hard time with. I don't have too much malice towards them, its not THEIR fault some fool decided that we needed to have them just because Shakespeare wrote about them I certainly don't have too soft a spot for invasives of any kind.