Starling is relatively easy to find ... thank goodness, because it's fantastic to tye with!! Sparrow, on the other hand, is hard to come up with! As REE suggests, the UK site may have some. You could watch along the roadside ....
If you want to go traditional, do ask REE about the wax! Once you've used it, you'll never look back!!!!
REE ... what is water rat?
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.