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30-01-2011, 02:14 PM
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30-01-2011, 02:26 PM
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you must spend a fortune on seed! i counted 9 feeders there!!! plenty of mouths to feed i guess!
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30-01-2011, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by thebeard  you must spend a fortune on seed! i counted 9 feeders there!!! plenty of mouths to feed i guess! | Nah not really I buy it in the pound shop and make my own fatballs/cake.Though thats me just added the sunflower heart feeder so we'll see how that goes  |
30-01-2011, 04:19 PM
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~T~, I just counted 60 birds in the second picture down  
My starling "swarm" is usually around 30 - 40 in the garden together. Bigger flocks gather in the evening before roosting, maybe around 100 - 150, so I see a mini starling swarm flying around in the evenings.  |
30-01-2011, 04:24 PM
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i thought i was doing really well today as i counted 11  thats my biggest group so far !!!
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30-01-2011, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by toadpole i thought i was doing really well today as i counted 11 thats my biggest group so far !!! | Ditto mine was 14 this morning I would hate to try and count much more than that 
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30-01-2011, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by C J Smallman Ditto mine was 14 this morning I would hate to try and count much more than that
Chris. | Starlings are sooooo tricky to count, especially when they are squabbling over food. My starling visits consist of lots of squealing, flapping wings, fluttering up in the air at each other while squealing. I had 10 trying to get on my suet ball feeder all together at one point Later, one was on that feeder, another tried to land on it and the first one squealed and pecked it on the head . If they would just quietly feed together, there's plenty of food for all of them. But then that's what I like so much about starlings, their comical behaviour and beautiful plummage |
30-01-2011, 05:49 PM
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This is the biggest starling swarm I can manage at the moment.... does size matter? 
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30-01-2011, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SuzieandFlo Starlings are sooooo tricky to count, especially when they are squabbling over food. My starling visits consist of lots of squealing, flapping wings, fluttering up in the air at each other while squealing. I had 10 trying to get on my suet ball feeder all together at one point Later, one was on that feeder, another tried to land on it and the first one squealed and pecked it on the head . If they would just quietly feed together, there's plenty of food for all of them. But then that's what I like so much about starlings, their comical behaviour and beautiful plummage | I have them nesting in the roof above my bedroom bit noisey when the young are after food later in the year. Another pair nest above the toilet on the other side of the house.......Urrrm I think I might be the interloper and living in a nest box
The ones in the garden always put on a show as without fail they use the bird baths even this morning and as they splash water all over the place the sparrows stand there having a shower
They truely are clowns of the garden
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