Starlings in my back garden, not long ago:
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“Heads in the trough”. They’ll be Tory Starlings then.
“Heads in the trough”. They’ll be Tory Starlings then.
A starling never changes its spots.
What did you want to say?
This was observational: no greater motive
I just noted the mayhem in the garden
At many times today well over starlings present + many more
I rarely see starlings and sparrows, never, but lots of goldfinches. Amidst the economic mayhem, they keep me sane.
Sparrows and starlings dominate my garden
Plus chaffinch and occasional goldfinch and greenfinch very rarely
Wren, almost never
Blackbirds, often
L9ng tail, blue and great tits but never coal
Wood pigeon and collated dove
Jackdaw
Blackcap
Those are the likely sitings
I am hoping I won’t have as many starlings this year, as they have been nesting in my roof and messed all over the front door step. Having spent nearly £10,000 on replacing the roof, I hope they will not be able to nest in the roof. I have lots in the back garden, though.
I have a yellow feeder in the back garden and have noticed that all the tits feed from it.
Is that commonplace? Do certain birds go for certain colours?
No idea!
Liberal Democrat tits!
Will this squeeze past the moderator?
Yes
We have predominantly crows, magpies, pigeons, rarer robins and sparrows, other small birds not often not ornithologically exciting at all. When I was a child I can remember a much larger range of the wild bird population, they have been decimated over the last decades by industrial agriculture and the massive use of pesticides. and the loss of hedgerows and the elimination of wild spaces.
True
I have a hedge about 6 metres from my front door, which is about 12 metres long.
Last year when I was doing the RSPB birdcount at the end of January I counted over 30 sparrows on top of the hedge, all facing the same way, into the wind.
I am hoping this year I have a greater variety of birds, including libdem tits.
Today, we had 14 Sparrows, 3 Blackbirds, a Robin (yesterday 2), a Dunnock – sometimes 2, 2 Pigeons, a Crow, 2 Jackdaws, & a Magpie. I don’t know where the Rooks were today. A neighbour who also feeds the birds is away so I expect we have his share of Sparrows.
We do see a Wren, Bluetits, and more rarely Great tits. No starlings.
The variety is high….30 starlings at one point this afternoon