Here’s a European starling basking in the morning sun while perched in our bamboo stand earlier today:
According to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (whose officers my father derisively calls “bunny sheriffs”), these starlings are a “nuisance species” that are a “serious competitor with native species for tree cavities, often aggressively evicting other species…”
Sucks for our local woodpeckers, but I think the starlings are beautiful too.
Anyhoo, everything is terrible, so please feel free to discuss whatever since this is an open thread.