All good things......

[laurab]

Oh well, all good things must come to an end - and today we released the (native) baby starlings we helped to maturity.

Although it was a wrench it was great to see them go. The first one circled the house twice before vanishing form sight. The last 2 we had to physically remove from their flight.

Roger put rings on them, in the hope that we might see them again one day.

If you ever see a Starling with a pink ring on it's leg........:razz:

Kenny - Thanks for letting Roger share this with you earlier today ;)

[laurab]

Here is a shot of one of the Starlings

[Rogerb]

yep they have gone into the grate blue yonder which is theres by birthright hope they take our love with them :oops: yea i know i am being puss aint i

[kenny]

hi laura/roger
i felt priveleged roger sharing it with me today i think i would have shed a tear when they went if i could have managed to let them go anyway!but as you say roger they are back where they belong and as i said earlier they just might come back one day to pay you a visit.....at least they have a life now as a lot of birds in that situation may have died i am sure they will be all happy mate!:cry:

ken

[Waxbillman]

hello Laura and Roger

i'm glad to hear they made it to the wild ok,
dedication for you, thats paid off

Matthew

[laurab]

Hi folks

I have another British Starling, from the same location as the last. This one is a bit younger and is therefore more demanding...but it's cute :-P

This will be it's first night, I hope it makes it.

[kenny]

hi laura
nice one ..its really good to here of someone doing stuff for the wildlife..lets hope you have the same success with this one



ken

[laurab]

The little one survived the night :razz:

[Waxbillman]

great Laura, well done

Matthew

[kenny]

hi laura
nice one mate......my daughter came for fathers day and bought me a pair of fawn zebras to start me off!after getting rid of the 40 odd before i did the move...

ken8-)

[laurab]

That's great Kenny :razz:

Unfortunately I have bad news, I have lost the Starling :( :cry:

[kenny]

hi laura
thats a great shame after all the success you had with the other ones

ken:cry:

[Rogerb]

yep you ar right Kenny Laura did her best for that bird she could not have done more :( but he will never be forgotten I we have him on video and in our harts , aint life crap sometimes :oops: I'm welling up :oops:

[Waxbillman]

what a shame, at least you gave the bird a chance of survival

Matthew

[PAUL HEARN]

Hi Laura and Roger,

You did a great job in getting this bird through it's first night, well done to you both, it isn't always easy.;-)
But I'm sorry that despite your best efforts this one didn't make it,:-( shock in some youngsters is something that there is no cure available.:|

In this case numbers count, please try to remember the fact that you managed to save four birds against the one that you lost!

Paul.

[Rogerb]

thankx paul what you say is true maybe next year we wil see the ones back in our garden that did make it :) dont know if I can wait that long , but going to haff to aint I :( MR B :)