Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Hi everyone, today my little starling crew came back. This time I’ve managed to get a photo. The starlings come as a family there were 8 all over my window ledge. It was sending my kitten bananas! But don’t worry my curtain is shut so the birds can’t see her. I also saw a little wren tucking away in the teacup n saucer.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
In reply to Seaman:
Wendy S said:Nice one Lilly it is so great to be able to watch the birds close up when you do not always have access to the countryside. Some of us are spoilt rotten and have almost endless access to open country even when limits are in place.
Thank you Pete, it surely is nice to watch the birds. What’s great is that my feeder has finally attracted some birds after a couple times trying. The starlings come back each day and so does the Wren though not saw that little guy on the camera yet as the camera is focused on the window feeder.
One day when I move I hope to have a little garden space that I can go full out on for the birds and other forms of nature. For now this will do as it’s definitely better than no birds at all.
The sun is shining today and look at those details on this guy so beautiful
Kind regards, Ann
In reply to Gardenbirder:
Gardenbirder said:Good news about the birds visiting your feeder, Lilly, but if all 8 Starlings try to sit on the feeder at the same time, that might well make it crash to the ground below--fingers crossed that does not happen. Starlings occasionally do argue with each other, which can be very amusing. They are good mimics, too, and once you have feeders down in the garden you might find them fooling you as to which birds you think you are hearing. Apparently they can even mimic car alarms and mobile phones but since I am usually watching them from inside and they are outside, I have not heard that myself. I look forward to seeing more reports about your birds, those birds seen at your window and when out and about.
Hello Ann thank you for your response, I have a few feeders on my window since the arrival of a family of 8 starlings. Last night I put out to plant saucer dishes and filled one with sunflower hearts mixed with a tiny bit of dried meal worms to persuade them to go to it. (That technique has worked!) I could hear two starlings and see there shadows through my curtain feeding from it as well as sitting in the little bath I put in the other saucer.
I also have a teacup and saucer feeder that is hanging from the string where the red circle is to cater for all the birds. The window where the teacup and saucer is currently jammed I can’t open it but I have someone coming in the upcoming days to fix all of my windows so they open properly. There are some hanging feeders low down as well with the fat balls in them (Not footballs lol) And a suet mix but they haven’t touched that.
That is very interesting, I’ve never heard them mimicking any other sounds, il be on the listen out from now on though thank you
Hello everyone, it surely has been a while since I’ve posted. I thought you might like a little update, I have been putting food out each week for my loyal bird visitors. The starlings have come everyday since the very beginning of the first post. I’m so happy that they have been coming, I was also greeted in the spring about May 2022 with there babies. It was a very noisy few months as they were growing and learning new milestones each week. However it has been so sweet watching them grow and turn all speckled. I can’t tell you how fast May to Mid September that happened.
I have had a few other visitors too, in the early summer I had house sparrows, pigeons and on occasions wrens come. I have also in the last couple of weeks had a blue tit visit (I think it got blown away during the wind we had as I haven’t seen it since) but today I have been greeted by a female parakeet at my feeder. It tends to follow the starlings to my feeder. It came 7 different times today. So I’m really hoping it remembers where the food is and comes back :)