Starling-grad
- 20 August 2011 15:54122035Invasion of the starlings after the rain!
- 20 August 2011 15:55122036Scary!!!!
- 20 August 2011 15:56122038Over 100 at the last count, they are all singing, it's very LOUD!!
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
20 August 2011 16:09122042was there a hitchcock theme tune playing in the background.or could it have been look on the bright side of life.
- 20 August 2011 16:24122047 I've never seen so many of them at once. A few months ago I counted 48 in the garden but this time only about 20 of them came in. Which reminds me, I'd better refill the bird food bowl - again!
- 20 August 2011 23:08122116A few years ago I attempted to set up a bird table, I had the very devil of a time making it pigeon proof. That year the table did attract starlings into the garden and they did a truely wonderful job of clearing out the garden and the flower pots of all the harmful grubs. I have since evolved the bird feeding down to a couple of hanging peanut feeders, good for the sparrows and tits, but little else. I would welcome another visit from the starlings just the same.
BTW. The collective noun for starlings is Murmeration.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
21 August 2011 07:47122128Many years ago when I lived up Bunkers Hill Road there was such a gathering around us.
They flew around with new ones arriving all the time, the interesting thing was where they landed while regrouping only picking certain house roofs, not mine or next door but the one after that even though they all looked the same. They were in the area for quite a while before flying off again.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 21 August 2011 09:16122136A Murmeration, well I never knew that Tom.
They are very comical and the noise - my 2 birds were going mad - 21 August 2011 09:20122139my cat would see that as a holiday home.
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
23 August 2011 13:52122597they can be scaryALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 23 August 2011 14:10122600Reminds me of the photographs we used to cut out of magazines, migrating birds on telegraph wires, for our nature trail books along with autumn leaves etc. Do primary school kids still do that sort of thing?Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 23 August 2011 14:30122602"Telegraph wires"?
Sadly, in the twenty-first century Mobile-phone masts do not offer the same spectacle.
The Starlings three simple rules...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations/Swarm#p00gfxp1Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 23 August 2011 17:05122637I currently have 47 starlings, 3 doves, 10 sparrows and a robin in the garden - the noise
- 23 August 2011 17:35122646how do you manage to keep them still long enough to count them jeane?
- 23 August 2011 18:03122653Quick head count with the starlings, I'm getting used to it
