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Help! Quick!
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:18 am
by Jenny Green
There's a starling with a broken wing hiding in my woodpile! What should I do?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:27 am
by 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
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:28 am
by sandersj89
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:23 am
by Jenny Green
Thanks but I went back and it had gone.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 1:16 pm
by oldherbaceous
Jenny, maybe it was just trying to salute you.
Kind regards Old Herbaceous.
Theres no fool like an old fool.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:54 pm
by peterf
pull its neck,they are vermin
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:12 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:51 pm
by 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