19 January 2016

birds around us - starling

The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

After a lark turn on starlings. It was starlings often arrive sooner than larks, when the morning there are still a lot of frost and even snow. It reminds of my childhood the old willow with numerous hollow tree right in front of our house. It was on it perched dozens of starlings, whistling all the time. It was only when he heats up a little males take the fight for a place on a nest in a hollow tree or a house for starlings. Very varied trills starlings tend to be especially during mating season. Later, the birds have a lot of work when feeding young in search of earthworms and insects running around the earth. Once this period has passed, it seems that starlings are disappearing, and they move on a meadow in huge herds, and of losing their wonderful so far nuptial plumage color. I do not know if you noticed that somewhere in the second half of September and even in October they arrive at their breeding ground and sing here even for a few days to say goodbye and fly south. Shooting starling is not difficult, but take a good photograph is not easy.

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