Starlings

 Starlings are birds i do see every day

I first got to know them in a Land far away

When i was muich younger a long time ago

Long before time it did become my foe

That they are Nature's survivors of them none can deny

Every year their flocks in numbers multiply

Along with sparrows, greenfinches, blackbirds among others introduced to south eastern Australia in the late nineteenth century

In Victoria large flocks of them every day one does see

Along with the introduced Asian mynas by many bird lovers seen as a pest

Since they take over the sites many small native birds use for their nest

In Western Australia starlings and sparrows are shot on sight

But on the controlling of Nature's creatures should us humans have this right?

On shed rafters , under house eaves or in tree cavity in flimsy cup nest of  feathers and hay

Four to eight blue eggs the female bird lay

They are known for to raise three broods a year

A reason for their increase in numbers that seems obviously clear

Every day large flocks of starlings i see

A common sight to many as well as to me

They live on insects they find on the ground

And in large numbers they do abound.