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Last Friday I reported the largest starling invasion that I have ever
experienced at my feeders in 30 years - and how they tended to
monopolise the fat feeders, in particular giving the woodpeckers and
especially the male Baltimore oriel a hard time to access them. The
caged fat feeder (which only the oriel - and some chickadees could
enter) was initially bombarded by the starlings, who collectively gave
up after a few hours and left it alone - when it was promptly and
frequently accessed by the oriole. Although the majority of the
starlings moved away the next day, four remained - and these four spent
the day consistently and promptly harassing the oriole within seconds of
its entering the cage and starting to feed. My last sighting of it was
on Sunday, when it was hounded out of the caged feeder by the starlings
and flew away.
A sad way for this story to end....
I have always had starlings at my feeders over the years, but have never
witnessed this sort of thing before.
Eleanor Lindsay
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<font size="+1">Last Friday I reported the largest starling invasion
that I have ever experienced at my feeders in 30 years - a</font>nd
how they tended to monopolise the fat feeders, in particular giving
the woodpeckers and especially the male Baltimore oriel a hard time
to access them. The caged fat feeder (which only the oriel - and
some chickadees could enter) was initially bombarded by the
starlings, who collectively gave up after a few hours and left it
alone - when it was promptly and frequently accessed by the oriole.
Although the majority of the starlings moved away the next day, four
remained - and these four spent the day consistently and promptly
harassing the oriole within seconds of its entering the cage and
starting to feed. My last sighting of it was on Sunday, when it was
hounded out of the caged feeder by the starlings and flew away. <br>
A sad way for this story to end....<br>
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I have always had starlings at my feeders over the years, but have
never witnessed this sort of thing before.<br>
<br>
Eleanor Lindsay<br>
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