Tag: common starlings

• The starlings have come

  When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations.  They fill…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

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