Mid-Atlantic Gardening: MidAtlantic bird watching for spring, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Holly---

If you overlook that fact that all the black things in your trees are Starlings--it does
look a bit artistic...Like a modern art vision of trees.....Oh, well...

WHERE have all my gold Finches gone the last two days????
Haven't seen any at the tube feeder! Not overly many at the big feeder either.
Is there something about the weather that they are doing something else...somewhere else?

BUT--A mated pair of Starlings has, again, claimed the hole in the dead Cherry tree
as their own. It is like the PRIME nesting hole....big and cavernous....as all the stems of
this dying tree are totally hollow. The hole at the very center, just above the trunk, is IT!

I cut this tree back as far as I could 2 years ago--did not dare get rid of it yet--
more then one pair of birds nest int it.
I believe the birds that hatched in this "condo" are the ones coming back--
OR--do Starlings live for 6 years?

Pic #1 and #2 from 2011
#3--today...at full zoom through my window---a bit fuzzy...singing from the "tree top" to his lady...