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Does anyone else like starlings?
Pyra
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Or share birds you like that annoy everyone else!
I really like them, I think they're hilarious. And they're also gorgeous in their own way. But I know other people can't stand them.
I really like them, I think they're hilarious. And they're also gorgeous in their own way. But I know other people can't stand them.
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The ones I could do without are the Wood Pigeons,but they are still a part of the natural world so I just try to discourage them rather than get rid of.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Two of them brought their offspring to sit on the pergola the other morning.
"See those windows Junior ? Sit here and make a racket as soon as it gets light. Then fly down to that birdbath and fill it full of scum (and worse) until you bung up the solar fountain. Job done".
Starlings used to drive my nan mad. She'd be up and down banging on the front room window and they'd take no notice whatsoever. Ironically they were probably doing her a favour by eating the leatherjackets.
Blackbirds on the other hand, love 'em. This is Scruff. What a character.
I don't mind the starlings, but they are hideously messy, and a nuisance when they start nesting in roofs.
I like Mr thicky wood pigeon too. I also don't mind the rooks and their pals, although they don't visit very often.
All welcome here - except for the skanky street pigeons and seagulls. There's a little colony of streeties in an abandoned farmhouse not far away, and seagulls have also infiltrated, although not in my garden. I presume because there's fewer folk in town feeding them, and less food outlets open for easy pickings. I'm a good half hour away from coast and city.
'My toe bleeds, Betty' is always the woodies's call for me
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The only birds I really dislike are parakeets and I'm not too keen on pigeons either. Used to see bits of them littered about the garden, but no cats around at the moment so they're increasing in numbers now.
I dislike Magpies! I have a pair that visit occasionally but are not welcome. Wood pigeons are welcome though as they pick up the sunflower hearts that the Goldfinches drop.