and it causes an occasional argument..I pay for the bird seed, not him, and I don't like to chase birds.
Looked them up on the web, and there are actually Starling clubs..
They are interesting to watch. In winter they are speckled and their beaks are black, and come spring and summer, they are black with yellow beaks. Their main flaw is that so many of them fly together they clean up all the bird food.
They are useful though. Watch in the spring when a hundred or so land on a lawn and eat all the bugs they can find. I think they follow farmers as the fields are plowed and eat the unearthed bugs. They don't like bird seed, but devour baked goods and suet voraciously, and I make suet, and that's what attracts them.
When too many are gorging themselves, it's easy to chase them. I just wave my hand in the window a couple of times - they are so excitable that they all take off at the same time (and they come back 
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