Garden Birds

[MarkEvan]

A robin and a starling from saturday in my garden. Hope you like.

Not keen on the third one, think I over sharpened it too much, at the moment these are the only birds that will come to the garden, maybe at some time I will be able to bring some more colourful birds, (allthough that said i do think that starlings are generally overlooked and people don`t realise the colourful little guys that they are).


Mark

 

[lmarie23]

very nice.... it's nice to see pictures of English robins, I see so many of our American ones....

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Nice pictures! At work we've been having some problems with Starlings making nests in some very bad places. Found one nest inside the wing of our Champ, another up inside the cowling of our Cessna 182 and many more in customers airplanes. It makes me sad having to remove the nests. I try to relocate them in better places, but unfortunately an airport really doesn't have ANY good places for them.

 

[MarkEvan]

very nice.... it's nice to see pictures of English robins, I see so many of our American ones....

Thankyou, I quite like the robin, stays around all through the year and its not afraid of much, if I stay still they come within 2 meters of me!

Nice pictures! At work we've been having some problems with Starlings making nests in some very bad places. Found one nest inside the wing of our Champ, another up inside the cowling of our Cessna 182 and many more in customers airplanes. It makes me sad having to remove the nests. I try to relocate them in better places, but unfortunately an airport really doesn't have ANY good places for them.

Cheers Boss, thats pretty bad, I don`t envy you the task of having to move the nests. I wonder if they do a spray or something that would discourage birds from nesting in these places, if they don`tr they should do.

Mark

 

[the_Abbot]

Beautiful birds

 

[cristianna]

Great pics MarkEvan! The black bird, is that the starling? I've never seen a bird with all the colors of a rainbow-- awesome!!!!

Nice pictures! At work we've been having some problems with Starlings making nests in some very bad places. Found one nest inside the wing of our Champ, another up inside the cowling of our Cessna 182 and many more in customers airplanes. It makes me sad having to remove the nests. I try to relocate them in better places, but unfortunately an airport really doesn't have ANY good places for them.

That's really sad to hear. Since an airport is a place for *birds* can they maybe alleviate the problem by placing birdhouses in desirable locations away from everything?

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Yeah, they actually do have birdhouses for them. But they still prefer the airplanes. This year has actually been particularly bad for the birds, we had one of our small airplanes hit a Seagull in flight the other day. Thank God it hit the wing and not the windscreen! Would have gone right through.

 

[cristianna]

This year has actually been particularly bad for the birds, we had one of our small airplanes hit a Seagull in flight the other day. Thank God it hit the wing and not the windscreen! Would have gone right through.

Right through? Really??? I recall seeing something on MythBusters about frozen chickens, but I never knew sea gulls could do that.

 

[Yamialpha]

Nice pictures! At work we've been having some problems with Starlings making nests in some very bad places. Found one nest inside the wing of our Champ, another up inside the cowling of our Cessna 182 and many more in customers airplanes. It makes me sad having to remove the nests. I try to relocate them in better places, but unfortunately an airport really doesn't have ANY good places for them.

Starlings are an invasive, nuisance species here in the US, so you shouldn't feel too guilty about removing them. It'd probably be better to eradicate them.

 

[cristianna]

Starlings are an invasive, nuisance species here in the US... It'd probably be better to eradicate them.

 

[Kehaar]

Lovely pictures I love birds, me.

 

[MarkEvan]

Starlings are an invasive, nuisance species here in the US, so you shouldn't feel too guilty about removing them. It'd probably be better to eradicate them.

.............don`t rise to it...........don`t rise to it........stay calm........stay calm ahhhhhhh............ WHAT, STARLINGS A NUISANCE, ARE YOU MAD MAN? DO YOU NOT FIND THEM FUNNY?........CALM DOWN.......CALM DOWN.......CALm down.......



But seriously they are about the funniest things on Gods green earth. Today we ahd a few in the garden and there was this one young starling that kept on chasing a sparrow around, not aggresivly, another time there was this daddy starling who had some food for his young but there were about 5 young un`s following him and he couldn`t decide which was his, he`d keep going up to one to put the food in its mouth then decide that that one wasn`t the right bird. And another time this adult starling was trying to feed his young but the bit was to big and so the young starling kept dropping it, but the dad couldn`t get his head around this so kept on picking it up and trying to feed it to the younger one. Oh and another time this adult gave a young starling some bread which again was to large for it so it dropped it, but when the dad came to put it back in its mouth the younger bird mistook wht the older bird was doing and ran away with the bread, whenever the adult came closer to try and help the young one would just pick up the bread and runaway.


They are funny if you watch them.


Mark

 

[MarkEvan]

Lovely pictures I love birds, me.

thank you for the kind coment, yeah i love birds to they can be so funny, I like any animal really they all have the capacity to be funny.

Mark

This forum has some great shots on it, far better than my own, and this particular thread has some great captions by the pictures

I can`t find the right link at the moment but I will get it for you.
Ultimatly its photography on the net if you want to get there yourself.


http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=322991
Ps shouldn`t you be called thomas covenant then?

 

[fieldmouse3]

I can't believe how different British robins look from American robins. Are they a different species, or did genetics just give them different looks?

 

[Yamialpha]

.............don`t rise to it...........don`t rise to it........stay calm........stay calm ahhhhhhh............ WHAT, STARLINGS A NUISANCE, ARE YOU MAD MAN? DO YOU NOT FIND THEM FUNNY?........CALM DOWN.......CALM DOWN.......CALm down.......



But seriously they are about the funniest things on Gods green earth. Today we ahd a few in the garden and there was this one young starling that kept on chasing a sparrow around, not aggresivly, another time there was this daddy starling who had some food for his young but there were about 5 young un`s following him and he couldn`t decide which was his, he`d keep going up to one to put the food in its mouth then decide that that one wasn`t the right bird. And another time this adult starling was trying to feed his young but the bit was to big and so the young starling kept dropping it, but the dad couldn`t get his head around this so kept on picking it up and trying to feed it to the younger one. Oh and another time this adult gave a young starling some bread which again was to large for it so it dropped it, but when the dad came to put it back in its mouth the younger bird mistook wht the older bird was doing and ran away with the bread, whenever the adult came closer to try and help the young one would just pick up the bread and runaway.


They are funny if you watch them.


Mark

Starlings are funny to watch, and if I lived in Europe (i.e. their native range) I'd cater to them just as I do our native birds here in the U.S. I sit and watch them whenever I'm in the city. They've got their own unique personalities, and it's funny to watch them interact with each other. They have, however, caused a lot of trouble for farmers and businesses around here (along with English sparrows and rock pidgeons).

 

[eve27]

Beautiful birds

 

[encouraging loves animals]

beautiful birds

 

[MarkEvan]

Starlings are funny to watch, and if I lived in Europe (i.e. their native range) I'd cater to them just as I do our native birds here in the U.S. I sit and watch them whenever I'm in the city. They've got their own unique personalities, and it's funny to watch them interact with each other. They have, however, caused a lot of trouble for farmers and businesses around here (along with English sparrows and rock pidgeons).

Actually I agree in a sense, there are times when we need to do something to control an animals population, because that animal is having an adverse effect on other animals. A typical example of this would be the red squirrels we have in the UK, since the introduction of the grey squirrel the red squirrels have declined in number drasticly while the grays have grown exponentially. The qrey squirrels are far more aggresive than the reds and so have taken over their habitats.

There are many such examples here and around the world, the question becomes what do we do?

Mark

 

[MarkEvan]

beautiful birds

Beautiful birds

Thankyou both for the comments, and welcome to CF Eve, I hope you like it here.

Mark