2 October 2025

As Tikki and I walked down our little road this lovely morning, I saw something very beautiful.  There were two starlings sitting on an electric wire, close to the post just quietly chatting to each other.
They really were, 'chatting'; they would sit quietly for a moment, then one would turn to the other and make a gentle squeak to which it's companion would reply with another, equally gentle few noises. A string of such 'sentences' would then follow, back and forth between them. When that topic finished they sat, resting comfortably in each other's company until one of them made another remark which would start the conversation again.
I watched and listened, entranced, for several minutes while Tikki did her own thing at the other end of her lead until she suggested that we really ought to be getting on with HER walk.
I wonder what they were chatting about? The weather? The availability of worms? The behaviour of the younger starlings? The state of the World? The beauty of the morning?
It was just so peaceful, comfortable and natural to see the two birds - especially feisty starlings - completely relaxed and happy just being peacefully together in the morning sunshine.
Don't we live in an amazing, beautiful world!

With love,
Jacquie xx