Starlings

[watervole]

Starlings are rather lovely birds when you look at them closely. There's an
irridescent sheen to the feathers and they're wonderfully agile flyers.

There's a lot that we still don't know about them. Apparantly when they depart
from their roosts of an evening, they make a pattern that is so distinctive that
it can be picked up by radar operators. But why they make that pattern is a
mystery.

They also like certain types of bird food. We bought a rather expensive creamed
peanut bird treat the other day (RSPB recommended) and hung it out to see how it
went. It lasted two days, and the second day was pretty much the left over
scraps being picked out of the lawn.

Can't afford three quid every other day.

Took a load of peanuts and put them in the nut chopper attachement on the
liquidiser. Melted a load of lard (nice cheap hard fat) and used that to bind
the peanut mixture. Poured it into an old youghurt pot to set. Hey presto!
Gourmet bird food. Even as I write, several juvenile starlings are cheerfully
squabbling over it.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

That sounds like chocolate crackles for birds!