Starling feeding frenzy

fishfryer

frying fish driveler
Straight across the road is a big wild black cherry,I’ve seen a flock of Starlings mob that tree for a few days now. They show up all at once clean up the ripe ones and fly off together,like a military operation.
 

Redbow

Senior Member
I don't see nearly as many Starlings as I once saw in our area. The wild black cherry trees produced nothing this year with the cold. I was hoping our tree would have a few the birds love them and so do I.
 

NCHillbilly

Administrator
Staff member
I hate starlings. Nasty, invasive European birds that hurt our native bird populations, carry diseases, and generally make a big nuisance of themselves.

Hard to believe that all the billions of them in the US now came from 100 released in Central Park in NYC in 1890 by a feller who wanted all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to live in America.
 

Redbow

Senior Member
I hate starlings. Nasty, invasive European birds that hurt our native bird populations, carry diseases, and generally make a big nuisance of themselves.

Hard to believe that all the billions of them in the US now came from 100 released in Central Park in NYC in 1890 by a feller who wanted all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to live in America.
I hate the English sparrow just as much as I do Starlings.
 

fishfryer

frying fish driveler
I hate starlings. Nasty, invasive European birds that hurt our native bird populations, carry diseases, and generally make a big nuisance of themselves.

Hard to believe that all the billions of them in the US now came from 100 released in Central Park in NYC in 1890 by a feller who wanted all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to live in America.
The same
Sort of thing happened once again in Central Park with English Sparrows. Nasty Blue Bird
Murderers!
 

Wifeshusband

Senior Member
My father was peaceful man . . . until English Sparrows and Starlings showed up in the yard, and then he morphed into Elmer Fudd; but, unlike Elmer, he bagged what he went after.

One year he bought a really nice sparrow trap. The bird went in the small doorway and the platform dropped like a little elevator. The only way out for the bird was to walk into the cage. I can remember seeing a dozen sparrows at one time in the trap. He was ruthless in pursuit.
 
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