“I’ve not seen a starling for weeks”, I said to a friend. “Oh, I’ll send you a little pot of food they love”, she said. I hung it out, and today apparently every starling in the NE has turned up. Hurrah!

by -SaC

14 comments

  1. They’ve probably just fledged – there’s a family nesting in my roof, and at some given point they all decide to fledge up and down the street and there’ll be a gaggle of a few hundred feckless baby starlings eating everything they can find around the estate

  3. I’ve found they like mealworms. Put them out once and had a similar swarm! Never again as they scared my regulars off

  4. I’ve got to ask, why would you want them? They’re my least favorite of all the birds who show up to the feeder, greedy and raucous.

  5. Can you take mine as well, please? My garden’s overrun with them and their recent offspring to the exclusion of many other birds at the moment.

  6. It’s currently starling fledgling season, so perfect time to feed them, though it will be a little noisy for a couple of weeks. But it’s good to do so, starlings need support right now. They’ve lost over half their population in the past 30 years.

  7. What a world we live in when people can just go around saying “NE” to each other

  9. I think we must live near each other as I took have a huge number of starlings 

  11. Our mob have started bringing their youngsters with them to our feeder. We call them The Starvings, because they descend en masse and pillage it.

  12. My wife puts out fat balls in a bird feeder and they’re devoured by the radge starling gang. We also have jackdaws, magpies, robins, dunnocks and of course bottom-feeding pigeons picking up the scraps. There’s also a sparrowhawk that occasionally shows up, which you can identify by the eerie silence.

  13. We had a family of starlings in the garden recently, loved seeing them. I use to live on a farm in the country, growing up and we’d have hundreds of them swooping in at times.

    I’d like to put out some sort of feeder for them, but I live in the city and we have a persistent rat problem – is there anyway to feed birds, without getting rats, too?

  14. We suddenly have loads of starlings and they have come out of nowhere. This is the first day this week where they aren’t in our trees screaming. Looks like they are at yours instead.

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