Bossy Birds!
GemmaJF
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I expect Edd is going to have a field day with the title of this thread. 
We've had a wagtail visiting for the last month, won't tolerate anything else at the bird table. He keeps chasing off the robins and blue tits. They only get a look-in when the great tits arrive and see-off the wagtail, usually by flying in very close over his head, he doesn't like that at all!
So who's the boss at your feeders and tables?
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I have a blackbird who 'owns' the table while feeding but doesn't stay long. The rest of the birds know that and just hang around the area until he flies off.
Who are you calling a fat bird Edd?...
Starlings here definitely but I had a cunning plan with my hanging table....and it seems to be working...so far
Had a flashback there Edd - looks like my ex mother in law.........
crows / magpies are a pain at my feeders. They know I don't get up early ( unless I have to ) and I can hear them from my bed.
Starlings are a pain at this time of year as they congregate around the farm at the end of the lane.
By and large the others all get on pretty well, bless'em.
Greater spotted woodpeckers are very stroppy and wn't share with other birds. I have two sets - one lot prefer the peanut feeders and the other the fat balls. Everybody else is happy to share both hanging feeders and the ground stuff all day long but recently we have had a family of jays visiting early and they're not very good at sharing either.
I think our Jays are probably the true number 1 here, they don't need to squabble with the others, when they come in, everything else (even the wagtail!) makes an exit
They do seem to have set times though, so the rest work around them OK.
Goldfinches here. They could start a fight in an empty room.
It's the robin round here - he chases all the other birds off, even when the hanging table and tube are full!! They just work round him when he's had his fill.
Merry Christmas to all.
Here it is one of a pair of nuthatches that whizzes up and down all the feeders clearing everything else away until the gs woodpeckers arrive then he eats away quite peacefully with all the other birds as they return. I have 1 robin that pushes another robin away but tolerates all other birds and a chaffinch that does the same - only objects to other chaffinches.
That's one terrifying pigeon Edd!
Male blackbirds rule here. Only exception was a few years ago in the bad winter we had a flock
of fieldfares land and they ate the lot and nearly every berry in the garden within an hour 
Poor Walter ( not a pigeon
) but a collared Dove was terrified. Bossy blackbird made some noise from the garage roof and the robins observed from a distance.