Help! Quick!

[Jenny Green]

There's a starling with a broken wing hiding in my woodpile! What should I do?

[sandersj89]

Have a look in the yellow pages or on line for your local wildlife sanctury/hospital or RSPB Hospital. They should be able to help.

Jerry

[sandersj89]

This may help:

http://www.animalrescuers.co.uk/html/wildcents.html

Jerry

[Jenny Green]

Thanks but I went back and it had gone.

[oldherbaceous]

Jenny, maybe it was just trying to salute you.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

[peterf]

pull its neck,they are vermin

[jopsy]

did you imagine it jenny?
i usually ring the local wildlife peeps-i ended up joining after ringing them 3 times in a week!!
twice was for seagulls! dh was not impressed

[sandersj89]

Far from being verim, starlings are a very good gardeners friends. Their diet is based around insects and they will happily hunt for things such as leather jackets, chafer bugs, snails, slugs. Not to mention the general population is in decline due to the loss of nesting sites.

I have never experianced a problem with them in the garden and am more than happy to have them nest, this year 4 nests at the moment all with hungry chicks. When we renovated the house we even made sure they had access to nest.

Jerry