starlings

Adult Starling in the garden this afternoon

A Starling fledgling in the garden this afternoon

Juveniles

Starlings

These two look pretty stuffed. Plenty of berries left, but no room to put them in for a bit and apparently too stuffed to fly back to the pine trees where the flock were taking their breaks "between courses". The green background is blurred lawn. I'm not quite caught up browsing, but...

At least 4 of the House Sparrows are newly fledged. But as for the Starlings, some are from the original nests and are now getting some adult plumage, some are from the second batch and there's some newly fledged ones there too. Gawd.... my window does suffer at this time LOL TTTW

Young starling looking for a spot at the feeder

Mix of adult starlings and fledglings jostle for a spot at the feeder

...the word must be spreading, the broods are now arriving in bunches

Looks like the work load is lightening for this pair of starlings

One adult starling with the brood of five

Lesson for Saturday: it pays to study a picture. I didn't know the House Sparrow was there until I looked closely at the picture.... just saw all the Starlings LOL. A beautiful sunny day, so I'm off to Kinnordy. See you later.

That was the title that came into my mind when I saw this picture come up. I'd been for a walk around the town and on the way back saw this very large flock of Starlings settling on the roof tops. Though they were so mobile this is only a portion of them. Thought it'd do for Saturday Fun with...

Another place on that road, where I've no idea where we'd got to. Heather Hopper was a bus service running in the Cairngorms National Park near here, sadly no more, but thought I'd pinch the name for my title. There was another huge flock of very mobile Starlings flitting around from side to...

... just after we left Vestsideveeien, we came to a sudden stop when we saw all these Starlings had taken to the air. Had to try and get a picture of it all.

It was a bitterly cold day, as the postures of these starlings show.

prettying yourself, we'll go out on the town! ... well something like that! A couple of Starling in a tree in the garden the next morning Looks like an adult and youngster.

It had snowed and the ground had quite a bit of snow. Just thought it looked liked these two had got together to keep warm. TTTW Latest: we had a couple of snow showers last night, the first just turned to rain and didn't settle, the second was a little more serious and did lie overnight, but...

Never mind the spikes. Glad to find those birds again, not seen many in Cornwall of late

... and sour they are." But for the Starlings they were quite tasty. My husband also harvests rowans most years, using a long pruning hook to get at them. He cooks them up with apples from our garden to make jelly. The trick is to harvest them after a frost, or else put them in the freezer...

I could have said "Hyt henger de og sure er de" of the flock of starlings. Or maybe not sour. More like high they hang and backlit they are. But then I turned around and saw a few more on another tree, not even all that high up, and in good light |=)|