I brought this specially made bird table up with us from Suffolk hoping it would help to draw more birds in to our garden than when we were there and, to begin with, we were thrilled with the results, with a dozen or more species visiting it.
Sadly, this included starlings which, while beautiful and very successful birds, have no table manners. When the first one came we knew what would happen: it invited its friends and they invited theirs until one day we had no less than four of them woofing the food from the table and more lined up to join in.
So some wire was deployed. As a result, the poor blackbirds, which have very nice manners, are sitting around looking aggrieved, but most of the smaller birds have worked out how to get to the food led, unexpectedly, by one of the robins.
I am not complacent. A war of attrition has started. At present, only one of the starlings has managed to find its way through the wire barrier but, I fear, others will soon follow.
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