Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Mid-Atlantic Bird Watching - Spring 2014, Cont'd, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Cat--

A pair ow Starlings OWNS this hole in the dying tree! Every year--they are back
and guard it with their lives. I don't know if they are the same pair--or their progeny,
but every spring--they are there. That is why I have never cut this almost dead tree down.

One year--a squirrel had started a nest in this hole--and it was hilarious to watch
the two Starlings chase this squirrel away--I mean--it was WAR!!! Unbelievable---

The birds won--and spent the next week getting rid of all the "fluff" (insulation--I think)
that the squirrel had put in there...Every day--the birds would go in and out--in and out--
and bring up mouth-fulls of this fluff. It was all over the grass under the tree...
Than thee pair of Starlings reclaimed their "condo'....

Soooo funny! The prime property id that hole right into the trunk. Of course--
ALL the stems are hollow....

#2--the fluff they removed from the inside...all over the lawn. March, 2011