

Setting up home in a new country is going to be challenging. A bit like trying to cook a meal in someone else's kitchen. Maybe. This is a record of my experiences as I pack up my old life in England and start a new one in Ontario, Canada, with the aim of becoming more self-sufficient.
Copyright © Amanda Hill 2006-2025
3 comments:
An impressive sight and hopefully, as you suggest, they are eating a pest.
Those collective nouns for birds - endlessly fascinating and so weirdly strange!
I find starlings beautiful, sinister and destructive.
For a while, when I lived in a flat, a young starling kept turning up on his own whenever I was on the phone - and he'd stand on the windowsill, looking in at me.
I got quite put out and began to wondered if he'd been trained by the secret services and was some kind of sophisticated bugging device.
Esther Montgomery
According to the folks at Homeowner Net,(article on lawn pests), starlings love both grubs and the beetles that hatch from them, so maybe they're cleaning up your lawn for you indeed.
--Kate
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