Starling – visited garden

These are the birds you see flying around in large flocks, either urban areas or in the country. At the start of the month, sightings of starling were few and far between and just one was enough to get me excited. I saw one investigating a neighbour’s gable end for nesting possibilities and also one collecting nest material (which involved frantically trying to tug a marking ribbon off one of my plants!). I don’t know where they ended up nesting though. I heard the familiar clicking and whistling of a starling song from the distance and I thought that was as good as it was going to get. But, one day there were loads of starlings feeding from lawns and flying up to near-by roofs. I saw them a few times before they eventually visited our garden. Yippee!