What are these please

loco-colo

Descend like vultures and devour all the food for little birds - Any way to get rid of them? Thanks.

Del.Monte

loco-colo wrote: »

Descend like vultures and devour all the food for little birds - Any way to get rid of them? Thanks.

Picture?

loco-colo

loco-colo wrote: »

Descend like vultures and devour all the food for little birds - Any way to get rid of them? Thanks.

Picture

loco-colo

picture

Del.Monte

Juvenile Starlings.

loco-colo

Try again

Del.Monte

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/id

loco-colo

Thanks - they seem to be all over the place - I used never have them - right little b*#tards they are - they savage all the food for little birds in minutes.

Del.Monte

loco-colo wrote: »

Thanks - they seem to be all over the place - I used never have them - right little b*#tards they are - they savage all the food for little birds in minutes.

Well to be fair they are little enough themselves and they also do great work aerating the soil and gobbling up leatherjackets https://www.rolawn.co.uk/leatherjackets from under the lawn.

loco-colo

Sorry Del Monte - the only saving grace they have for me is that they are God's creatures - even that is not enough - I am out to get rid of them - however I can.

I spend a lot of dosh on bird food - 40 quid the other day - mealworms are 18 per bag - and these feckers devour them as quickly as I put them out - they attack feeders and eventually crack them - I am on their case.

magicbastarder

you put out food for the birds, the birds eat the food, and now you hate the birds.
be careful what you wish for, eh?

your 'i am out to get rid of them, however i can' is worrying though.

loco-colo

No - I am trying to feed the little birds and not the bullies that eat their lunch - the food on the lawn was just to get a photo.

I used to put out a load of stuff for them - but it was never enough - they would then attack the feeders for the little ones - I don't like bullies - feathered or otherwise.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

loco-colo wrote: »

No - I am trying to feed the little birds and not the bullies that eat their lunch - the food on the lawn was just to get a photo.

I used to put out a load of stuff for them - but it was never enough - they would then attack the feeders for the little ones - I don't like bullies - feathered or otherwise.

You are anthromorphising too much. Food is there, all sort of birds will try to take advantage of it. What's next? The Robins are depriving the Blue Tits, so will have to go? Greenfinches force chaffinches away from the food, so out they go?

loco-colo

Yeah - I can understand that ... I have a wife

corks finest

Del.Monte wrote: »

Juvenile Starlings.

Yep devil's

OpenYourEyes

Mod Note: Thread closed, after two particularly unconstructive comments in a row. Suffice it to say that, though Starlings aren't always the most popular of birds, there's some serious cognitive dissonance going on to be furious with their presence and yet to be wanting to attract 'little birds'.

They're a species that is declining in almost every country in Europe, except Ireland, and try as you might to convince yourself that they're impacting the other small birds, the fact is that they aren't! If Robins, Blue Tits and Goldfinches couldn't handly a bit of argy-bargy at the feeders, they'd have died out a long time ago!