While I was working in the yard a couple days ago, I heard a racket across the lake that grew louder and louder. It was a flock of starlings, thousands of them.
The starling population in the United States is estimated at 200,000, and it is still growing. That's a lot of birds. Before 1890 there were none. That year a wealthy American released 100 birds in New York's Central Park. He wanted America to have all of the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays. Starlings were mentioned in Henry IV: “Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer’…” (Part I, Act 1, Scene 3).
The population of starlings worldwide is falling. There are only 300 million of them in the world and we have two-thirds of them.
With the days being so short, we haven't had that much time lately to look for Indian artifacts, but have managed to find a few. Here is one I picked up.
Its tip is missing but it's still a good find.
Kathy picked up this nice one. It was mostly hidden in the dirt.
Here are two tools we picked found. A scraper...
... and a multi-purpose tool.
It was almost dark on the walk back home. We heard stomping in the woods and soon spotted a hunter who, I think, was hunting where he wasn't supposed to. He had on hunter orange. We didn't. We yelled, "Don't shoot us!" He didn't say anything. He could have been happy that we didn't ask him any questions or upset that we walking through his hunting area at the best time of the day for bagging a deer. Maybe both
A couple minutes later. Kathy said get you camera. It was an owl in the brush. The picture is bad because it was almost dark
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