26/10/2018 Robin's Lane, St Helens

Rose Colored Starling: After a day of highways England network training course (as it was as dull as it sounds) I had an early dart from work and headed over to see the juvenile rose coloured starling that's taken a liking to a chipshop off Robin's Lane as the bird is best viewed from the alleyway behind the chippy.

We've been lucky in the area as we have had two juvenile rose-coloured starling recently, one in Timperley and now this St Helens bird.

There has been some discussion about whether or not the St Helens rose coloured starling might be the same bird as the Timperley one last week.

Colin Davies has put a few comparison images up on the 'St Helens Now' blog that are well worth a look. See the link below.

 http://www.sthelensnow.com/modules/xhld3/index.php?id=5

Someone continues to put out meal worms, so maybe that's one of the reasons its sticking to this unusually small area and affording excellent



The bird really nice, I would even recommend taking a look at Pete Hines's cracking video. Please see the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXYHAFidro