Every year we have lived here, a pair of Starlings have chosen to have their
family in a small area behind a guttering in a tiny hole in our eaves - a pair
of them work very hard every year, they bring items for the nest and food once
the young are born.
The problem is, every year the young are fed and fed to their limit as parents
in the animal kingdom have a habit of doing - fatten the young before the big
wide world devours them.
Then the problem is the young become too big to be able to fit out of the
hole to fly and eventually they perish. The parents abandon them when the
noises stop.
Flight would have made them lean and made them themselves new parents ready
for the next spring.
Every year I think about opening that hole up (or closing it completely) to
let them out or to stop the next parents making the same mistake.
I wander the malls sometimes and think about the starlings - J. M. H
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