This afternoon, on March 3, I found a young European Starling in my driveway.
It was mostly grown and feathered, but not yet strong enough to fly. It
probably fell out of a nest a couple of days early. For it to be this age on
this date, its parents would have had to start the nesting process no later
than mid-January.
Also, for the first time ever, I saw a male American Robin at my feeder eating
seeds. Many Varied Thrushes do this, but robins have never eaten anything from
my feeders other than suet and only in extremely cold and snowy conditions.
Maybe he'd been watching his cousins and got the idea. Actually, they eat
plenty of seeds naturally-----inside berries.
Steve McDonald
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