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08-07-2009, 10:15 PM
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| | | Not so little brown job?
I know I should know....but I just can't be certain of my ID of this bird  
Sorry for the blurry photos - there was a group of three - photographed in failing light on South Downs farmland.
I would estimate the size as about that of a song thrush
Can anyone put me out of my misery please?
Red |
08-07-2009, 10:28 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
This, my friend is a juvenile starling.
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08-07-2009, 10:29 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
Yes juvenile starlings for sure
ellen 
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08-07-2009, 10:31 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
Thank you
Don't see many starlings round here (thankfully) - guess there must be some breeding nearby!
Red |
08-07-2009, 10:33 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
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Originally Posted by British Red  Thank you
Don't see many starlings round here (thankfully) - guess there must be some breeding nearby!
Red | Maybe, I have got so many in my garden, not to be horrible but they demolished my suet block within minutes. I just had to take it down.
HanD. |
09-07-2009, 04:26 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
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Originally Posted by HanDiiMaNz Maybe, I have got so many in my garden, not to be horrible but they demolished my suet block within minutes. I just had to take it down.
HanD. | I also had to take down my suet feeder for a couple of days as I was getting swarms of them and half of it had gone in a matter of minutes. |
09-07-2009, 04:56 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
What do you three have against Starlings? Not pretty enough? Too dull coloured, or drab? Have you looked closely, they are plumaged like the night sky. Hence their name. Have you listened to the complexity of their song, or the mimicry they are capable of? Have you seen them swirling in their thousands at twilight. Go talk to Oddie, he'll tell you
"no starlings...(thankfully)." I cannot believe a WABber wrote that.
You put the suet feeders up for birds in general, not just for the colourful ones, if you only want 'pretties' in the garden then you are living in the wrong country.
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09-07-2009, 07:22 PM
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| | | Re: Not so little brown job?
Yep starlings can demolish food with ease, but these quarrelsome, irridescent, creakily musical, delights can goose-step their way around my garden any day. |
09-07-2009, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Tringa Yep starlings can demolish food with ease, but these quarrelsome, irridescent, creakily musical, delights can goose-step their way around my garden any day. | Well said! 
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another vote for starlings from me they have a hidden beuty about them. | | | |
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