Re: Starlings
Andrew -
>I think the rest are in the eaves of my house & those in my neighbourhood.
>But at least they do eat some of the slugs & such. A fair trade-off ?
>Andrew van Heiningen
>
Well, to an extent. Though (a) they're so dim (or are so consumed with
a lust for chaos) that they don't just eat the slugs which are
lurking under the plants, they do their darnedest (and that's a lot of
darn) to yank the plants out of the ground at the same time (not as
bad as blackbirds, but close), (b) the noise! (all those millenia and
they STILL can't manage the simplest pseudo-melody), (c) the mess!
(guerrilla-fighers among our five million have made their way from
eaves to attics, where I store books which have overflowed first from
book-shelves then from visible substitutes for book-shelves - and you
can imagine the scene come late spring)(to hell with monkeys writing
Shakespeare, we're going to have the first baby starlings doing Ph.Ds
in art history....).
Ie, I'd certainly rather have Dave Poole's green woodpeckers!
Tim Longville
