After stopping briefly to watch them, I was just about to start the vehicle engine when I noticed a superb starling landing with a dry stick in its beak. But I did imagine for a moment that this was actually “Chick stick lesson #101”. With this superb starling seemingly educating its chick, as if it was trying to say, “If it is very hard and firm and does not squirm, it is not a worm.”It was also very amusing to watch the chick repeatedly try to take the stick from the adult bird. Hopefully, the chick did learn the “stick lesson”, and that sometimes grown-ups have more to do than just feed youngsters. Perhaps we could all learn a lesson from the “chick stick” example.

Source: The Star July 14, 2020 11:48 UTC