Squatter

European starlings are not popular birds with birders. The are an invasive and extremely successful species that steals nesting sites and fight agressively wth popular native species like blue birds and woodpeckers. I get this now.

I used to have a Red Bellied Woobpecker in my front yard tree. After a storm destroyed the trunk his old hole was in, he built a new one. But a starling displaced him. See the juvenile poking his head out.




Here's a close up.



















Here's the displaced woodpecker at my feeder during better times. ;-)