While waiting for the berries to ripen, they pull many stunts in the neighborhood.
Not ready yet, not ready yet !, she shouted to her fan club.
The starlings are hungry, as flocks of them have depleted most of the food in the neighborhood. And so, they keep a close watch on the tree that the female was inspecting in the picture above. Unfortunately, the berries were not ripe yet, and it will still take a couple of weeks before the berries are ripe. Amazingly, the starlings don't eat the ripe fruits of our strawberry-guava tree, as one would expect them to, because the smaller birds love to eat these fruits.
This was her fan club waiting and hoping that she would give them the signal to come and eat.
In the meantime, this guy below decided to come and inspect our drain in the garden.
I told him that there was nothing to eat in the drain.
But you can see that he didn't believe me :)
So, he decided to have a look for himself.
Oh yes, there was nothing to eat in there.
Meanwhile another guy landed and he tried to eat an avocado skin leftover.
I was very interested to see if he would eat avo.
And he did indeed. It was a skin that one of the squirrels dropped on the wall.
Once he had cleared the fruit inside the skin, he turned the skin over to see if there was also fruit on the other side.
So, yes, I told you that the starlings are all full of tricks, very similar to the squirrels that we have here in the garden. Makes one's time worthwhile just to sit in the garden after a tough day, with no time to take photos in nature. My habit is to clear my mind of any racing thoughts and just to be. Somebody said that if one looks toward the sun, the shadows will fall behind one, and that works very well for me. The birds show me that regrets are a waste of time, as they take the power out of one's day, and it's no use to drag the past into one's thoughts. It is the future that matters, and once one has learned the lessons from the past, then it's no use to keep harping on about it. Bury the past and look at the sun.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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