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Just seen this happen,in my garden.Wish I'd had my camera on hand. Is this normal?

One of a couple of dozen Starlings taken yesterday that frequent the gardens of my neighbourhood. They can be very annoying as they tend to be a bit aggressive and chase off the more desirable little birds we would prefer to be our visitors to the feeders. But I suppose they do have to live and survive...

We also live facing open farmed countryside . We thought that when moving here 5 years ago the area would provide us with views of many wild birds, but this has proved to be the opposite. In the city of Nottingham the gardens have wild birds, foxes and even squirrels. Here we don't see any sparrows...

Have seen greenfinches in the past and at times we have many collared doves sitting on top of the pergola over the pond (sometimes mating). Do at times get quite a lot of sparrows too but this was what I recorded today 29th January 2012 between 11.30am and 12.30pm Blackbirds 2 Starlings 12 Woodpigeon...

My Garden

JudiM, you make an interesting point there, surely such common birds should not be on the amber list!!?? You may be surprised to learn that they are in fact on the red list! It's true, starling numbers in the UK have plummeted in recent decades, declines are in excess of 50%, contributory factors...

Dont get much activity in my garden but these guys are regular visitors :)

Starling during RSPB birdwatch.

Starlings are one of my favorites garden birds as they are friendly, inquisitive and sometimes cheeky when it comes to eating freshly made suet bird cakes with mealworms.

Another regular at the trough in my back garden. If I spent as much money on myself as I do on bird food I would be morbidly obese, or dead fat anyway!

These starling eat just about anything, but are particularly partial to suet pellets

The jackdaw is waiting patiently for the starling to finish, whilst the little sparrow and the goldfinches ignore everyone.