Definitely not the sounds of silence.

Some moms might identify with this.

A baby hassling his mother for food. They are European Starlings.

Some humor if I may to entertain the readers, if there are any, with what I have in here to share. I decided to make a video as well in order for you to listen to the sound of one crying baby. I can only imagine what it must sound like for human mothers that have triplets, or six duplets when all the babies start to cry at once. It must be sheer pandemonium methinks.

We were at a campus where the NPO that works with disabled children is situated that Papillon supports. It is a very big campus with a wide-open field, and also many trees. I like to walk around here with my camera, and I have already done some posts about the birdlife at this campus. I even get the Peregrine falcon here that I posted before.

Now come and listen to the little starling. There were two, but the other one started looking for his own food, but not the troubled little guy.

A lady dove in a conversation with Mrs Starling to try and ease her haggard emotions, but she continued franticly to search for food for the baby.

The other cheeky baby even came to tell Mrs dove to mind her own business:)

A female Olive Woodpecker juvenile (Dendropicos fuscescens) sat in a tree above the starlings.

SILENTLY, watching what was going on below the tree,

Instead of shouting down for the starling baby to shut up, she rather turned her head up to pray and asked the feathered god to stop the noise, as it scared the tree bugs away.

Finally, another melee took place.

A pied crow landed, and the guinea fowls did not take kindly to a crow landing in their territory.

So, the male started shouting at the crow to get out of there.

When I said that he shouted, you can see below how upset he was, as his family also started to arrive.

These are all wild birds, and at times a guinea fowl flock visits the area. I counted 53 of them at one stage. The problem is that the pied crows also regard it as their territory, as they nest in a big pine tree across from where the guineas feed. There are also Cape Spur Fowls that live here. Not only that, as there are also canaries and sunbirds around, and of course the sparrows nest in the crevices of a building.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos and video by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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