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Birds - Starling Page 4

Image Taken on 07 Apr 2011 at 07:25 Image of day on 29 Apr 2011

Starlings nest in the loft by a hole we had the roofer leave open. But this Starling was on the roof ridge with this leaf and flew off toward the main field with it, so the loft is just one of many nest sites.

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Image Taken on 12 May 2015 at 09:33 Image of day on 05 Jul 2015

Food for the Starling chicks - in this case it looks like a worm plus a fly.

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Image Taken on 08 Mar 2021 at 14:08 Image of day on 02 Apr 2021

Following sighting of only a few starlings, we were really surprised to see this elegant moving cloud to the south, rising up and landing for a cause we couldn't see. We estimate 1500 birds in this section you can see.

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Image Taken on 06 Jun 2014 at 15:28 Image of day on 11 Aug 2014

The 100 juvenile starling (and a few adults) flying over the Oil-seed rape crop and then diving down into it en-mass to feed.

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Image Taken on 28 May 2012 at 07:09 Image of day on 26 Jun 2012

A 'zoom' in on the top two wires part way along. The top row is slightly out of focus despite being less than a metre nearer.

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Image Taken on 28 May 2012 at 07:09 Image of day on 26 Jun 2012

This is a joining of 4 images panning along this rabble of Starling perched on the 11kV high voltage cables that pass by our house. Moving about to get them in view means the joins are imperfect.

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Image Taken on 06 Jun 2014 at 18:13 Image of day on 11 Aug 2014

About 100 juvenile starlings can be seen moving in a flock all over the area. Here they are perched on the 11KV cables over some Bullocks in one of the fields to our south. Perhaps the flies that accompany cattle can be simply picked out of the air - NOT.

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Image Taken on 01 Mar 2012 at 13:56 Image of day on 07 Apr 2012

A chance grouping of 5 starlings on the perch next to one of the peanut feeders. It is interesting to see the number of different breast feather variations.

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Image Taken on 15 Oct 2017 at 16:31 Image of day on 20 Nov 2017

This group of about 400 Starlings made a short but interesting series of swirling patterns against the late afternoon sky.

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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2023 at 12:39 Image of day on 03 Jan 2024

The Starlings were not a single group - this flock of about 80 seemed to appear out of nowhere, only slightly depleting the number on the wires.

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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2023 at 12:39 Image of day on 03 Jan 2024

From another frame of the flock of 80 Starlings, here is an extraction of 9 for more detail.

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Image Taken on 01 Dec 2015 at 12:42 Image of day on 12 Jan 2016

Flocks of Starling and Fieldfares plunder the hedges for Hawthorn and Blackthorn berries. Here a couple of starlings are plucking off all but the last two berries visible in this image.

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Image Taken on 16 Nov 2024 at 10:39 Image of day on 21 Dec 2024

This is the biggest group of Starlings we have seen this year, all landing in quite a spectacular moment (unfortunately not captured on camera) descending on this 'broken' ash tree about 100m south of our south hedge.

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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2023 at 12:38 Image of day on 03 Jan 2024

From a bit closer here are the starlings, accompanied by one of the two local Carrion Crows.

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Image of day on 30 Aug 2005

These are immature Starlings - note the light coloured head.

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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2009 at 08:23 Image of day on 10 Dec 2009

We think starlings look wonderful. The bird on the right was calling.

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Image Taken on 25 May 2011 at 05:41 Image of day on 23 Jun 2011

4 (of at least 5) Juvenile Starlings forming a very 'English' queue with one of the adults at the left.

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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2013 at 11:59 Image of day on 28 Feb 2013

Two thoroughly disagreeable starlings.

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