BIRD NEWS:125

Here, you can see that the refill of the feeders did not last 'filled' for long - no sooner had I gotten indoors, than sparrows and starlings landed and munched! January progressed and the third week brought a few frosty mornings. Here are a pair of ravenous starlings munching on the sill...

In the above shot you might be able to see that starlings 'pick up' food pieces by opening their beaks very widely and whipping the morsel into their beak with a long pink tongue - a bit like a frog catches a fly. Oh, OK then - bye...lol.

Back to the feeder, and here is a pigeon eating dropped out pieces on the lawn below, while above the starlings create more crumbs for the pigeon to munch.

The third week of January was mostly wet followed by an icy, bitterly cold spell, then wet with damp mists. This gave me some terrible photography weather - but I managed a few good shots amongst the blurs. Here is one of a gang of starving starlings, happily munching from the food options on the feeder.