Nature Done Wright

    A friend of this blog writes that she has a mockingbird problem.  The mystery is, How can she solve it?
   Can you help?
   Here's her problem:
   "I have a real nice backyard feeder station that attracts a
wide variety of birds.  I've had it up for 2 years and other than the
pesky squirrels, it has been a real joy for me to watch the birds from
my sunroom.  This month, a pair of mockingbirds has started to
cause problems. 

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   "I have had mockingbirds all along, but they were very
infrequent visitors at the feeder, I mostly saw them at the top of a
nearby pine tree.

    "Now they seem to have claimed the feeder
station as their own private feeding grounds and are chasing away any
other birds that try to feed.  It's fine if they are not around, but if
they are, they dive at any other bird on the feeders, including some
large birds.  They leave the ground feeders alone.

     "Is there anything I
can do about this?  I enjoy seeing many different types of birds and
will be very disappointed if their behavior keeps the others away. 
With the recent weather conditions, I would have expected more birds
than I have seen."