Feeding the birds

Blue tit, house sparrow, wood pigeon, blackbird and starling in Cheshire. I would query starling. We do get them but great tits, wrens and chaffinch are more common locally. Every now and then when out walking we hear a tree full of starlings. I used to work in Liverpool for a time and going across the Mersey on the old bridge, there was often a murmuration of starlings which likely caused a few crashes as they seem to hypnotise you. I buy a bird mix from a local miller. I used to have a feeder for peanuts that attracted blue tits and woodpeckers but an enterprising crow wrecked it and its sturdier replacement. Dunnocks used to hop around below the feeder tidying up but this year have been getting grain directly.