Starlings

[poliphilo]

The starlings have found the suet blocks. It's like a Hitchcock movie out there.

I'm told people don't like starlings because they hang out in gangs and twitter too much. I think they're beautiful- sleek and streamlined like Concorde, with an iridescent sheen to them if you manage to get close.

The robin sits in the holly bush, a little apart, fluffs itself up and waits for them to bugger off.

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Methinks the poor robin will be waiting a very, very long time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a patient bird.

We think it may have set up home in the holly bush. And the starlings are transients- here today, gone tomorrow.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

We think it may have set up home in the holly bush.

This sounds so comfortable--like the beginning of a child's story book.