I also made the mistake last year of adding millet to my suet mixture - this attracted the house sparrows. Where my suet feeders were visited regularly by Juncos and Chickadees, there are mostly house sparrows now.

I switched back to my regular lard/crisco based mixture without millet. Still, I have yet to see a Junco or Cardinal this year, Chickadees haven't been back since my first batch. I saw a Downy woodpecker visit once.

Only house sparrows at my suet feeder every day, very boring.

Where did all the chickadees go? Where are the Juncos and cardinals? Cardinals are usually last to check out my suet feeder, but no where to be found...

Suet feeder location has not changed...

WTH? I'm in Milwaukee, WI

crisco or lard
peanut butter
chopped nuts (sunflower seeds and pine nut or whatever I have on hand)
rolled oats
cream of wheat
corn meal
wheat germ
flour
honey or molasses or sugar
chopped raisins
dried apples
I have also added shredded coconut in the past and sometimes add crushed fritos as someone mentioned Juncos love it.
Sometimes add bread crumbs, though this is only a filler I've been told.

The sparrows hang out in a nearby evergreen tree. There are no nests or bird houses in my yard. I haven't seen any aggressive behavior (when the Downy woodpecker visited but he's much larger). Are they warding off other birds?

I use a hanging suet feeder, a log feeder and I also have a pie tin I use on a platform with a crumbly mixture.

Should I stop adding corn meal or any other ingredient?

I'm not a troll. Would appreciate response.

I also put out a suet cage with unrendered suet from the meat department at the grocery store. The woodpeckers like it best, but many other birds pick at it too. So I doubt it is because they don't like beef suet.

I hope the other birds come back soon! If I only had House Sparrows around, I'd stop feeding them.

I did see cardinals one day, but that's it.

I honestly think they are hoarding my feeder. They hang out in an evergreen nearby and chase all the other birds away.

I remember when the Bluebirds were nesting in my back yard I stopped putting much food in the feeders to discourage the House Sparrows from hanging around, since they can be a threat to the Bluebird nest. That worked pretty well.

Unfortunately, I'm hesitant to use Black Oil Sunflower as the hulls contain a toxin that can kill plants. I've invested too much time and money into my landscaping to take that risk, not to mention my nearby neighbors properties where the birds may carry the hulls as well.

I may just skip feeding for a couple of weeks and try my luck again. They aren't hanging around as much obviously since the food ran out, but I'm sure they'll be back.

I really miss the chickadees and juncos.

Then I put out my new batch. I have seen a few chickadees - but only a few, and that was after the really cold weather hit I figured they'd need it. I also have a downy woodpecker visiting a few times. House sparrows are back, but in smaller numbers than before.

No juncos. The numbers of birds at my feeder are much smaller in numbers in comparison to last year. I started feeding around the same time. Nothing else has really changed.

So, yeah, it makes me wonder what's going on.

Squirrels - that's another story.