There are more bees than the birds can eat...Please don't shoot the birds. It is kinda like people who place their prized goats in an area where mountain lions lives out here, then get upset when the lion kills a goat, and goes out and kills the dang lion...that increases the deer population for us...There will be a balance.
I was worried last year when blue jays were sitting outside my one hive, enjoying bees...they didn't even make a dent in the population. The birds are beneficial. they will eat harmful bugs as well...
Try a scarecrow before killing the birdies...
Thank you and amen...
Sharon