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During the day-long snowstorm a couple of days ago I had a starling
invasion, the likes of which I have not seen before in over 30 years of
bird feeding; my feeders were completely overrun for much of the day by
a flock (?30+) of noisy busy starlings which monopolised all the feeders
and seemed to relentlessly and particularly focus on keeping downy and
hairy woodpeckersand a male oriole away from my fat feeders. One of the
fat feeders was a special recipe for the oriole, which appeared less and
less as the day wore on and I thought it highly likely it could not
survive the very cold night that followed. During the evening of the
storm day I made some makeshift modifications to a spherical hanging
feeder with a 1" mesh around it (which I knew the oriole would go
through but not the starlings). The following morning the improvised
feeder was initially relentlessly bombarded by the starlings, who
eventually gave up and ignored it completely - and then - miracle of
miracles - the oriole appeared and without hesitation went straight to
the new feeder and ate its fill.
The starlings eventually moved on as the day got better - but the
magnitude of this kind of invasion is new to me; can it be a common
occurrence, and now that they have found me, should I expect that they
will repeat this ?
Eleanor Lindsay
St Margarets Bay
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<font size="+1">During the day-long snowstorm a couple of days ago I
had a starling invasion, the likes of which I have not seen before
in over 30 years of bird feeding; my feeders were completely
overrun for much of the day by a flock (?30+) of noisy busy
starlings which monopolised all the feeders and seemed to
relentlessly and particularly focus on keeping downy and hairy
woodpeckers</font><font size="+1"> and a male oriole away from my
fat feeders. One of the fat feeders was a special recipe for the
oriole, which appeared less and less as the day wore on and I
thought it highly likely it could not survive the very cold night
that followed. During the evening of the storm day I made some
makeshift modifications to a spherical hanging feeder with a 1"
mesh around it (which I knew the oriole would go through but not
the starlings). The following morning the improvised feeder was
initially relentlessly bombarded by the starlings, who eventually
gave up and ignored it completely - and then - miracle of miracles
- the oriole appeared and without hesitation went straight to the
new feeder and ate its fill. <br>
<br>
The starlings eventually moved on as the day got better - but the
magnitude of this kind of invasion is new to me; can it be a
common occurrence, and now that they have found me, should I
expect that they will repeat this ?<br>
<br>
Eleanor Lindsay <br>
St Margarets Bay <br>
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