[birdky] Re: Starlings....
- From: "Michael Hamm" <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <one4est@xxxxxxxxx>, "bird KY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:47:56 -0500
A few years ago, Danville hired some "experts" to deal with our huge
starling problem. If memory serves me correctly, they estimated 250,000
birds in my subdivision alone. I know that I had a couple thousand in my
yard at night (I had a lot of pine and spruce trees where they roost in
winter). I had about half my evergreens removed at considerable expense.
I still have a problem--the starling droppings really smell on a warm
winter day--but the problem is not as great as it had been before I
thinned out my evergreens. I think Boyle County now puts out poison bait
in the surrounding cornfields, and you see a number of dead starlings
which are often eaten by the resident Cooper's hawk. Hopefully whatever
poison they use will not harm the hawk.
Starlings were introduced into Central Park in NYC--50 pair, I think--
and have become a nationwide nuisance. And they make it hard for
bluebirds and other native cavity nesters to nest--hence the number of
slotted bluebird houses around here.
Michael Hamm
Danville
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From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evelyn Morgan
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:22 AM
To: bird KY
Subject: [birdky] Starlings....
I spent the Wednesday night in Somerset. Thursday morning as I
left the hotel, I saw the sky black with starlings. It was as if there
were a big smoke of black in the sky, that kept moving in a long
sometimes thick, sometimes thin line. I watched as I traveled the mile
to the office, they never stopped coming. I have never seen that many
before, remined me of a horror movie. Have Starling numbers increased
that much? or are they migrating from some place else. I would not like
to live near the night roost. ugh!
On another note, the Eastern KY Bird Club will meet Saturday,
February 11at the Laurel Gorge Cultural and Heritage Center in Elliott
Countyat 10 a.m. Everyone welcome. Contact me at one4est@xxxxxxxxx if
you need directions or other information.
Happy Birding!
Evelyn Morgan
Elliott County
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