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common starling

  1. starling

    starling

    crickets were apparently on the menu for the Easter meal of the little ones.
  2. Common Starling

    Common Starling

  3. A Glossy Raider

    A Glossy Raider

    Common Starling. Used to be these birds would wing in as large flocks and cover my yard. Now, for whatever reason, I usually only see them in ones and twos.
  4. Winter Starling

    Winter Starling

    Sorry, I dislike these birds. An invasive species on a colossal level. I don't like the way they look, I don't like the way they walk, I don't like the way they eat. However, it's not their fault they're here, and I do have a grudging admiration for their toughness and adaptability.
  5. Common Starling

    Common Starling

    From back in Sept 2019. A young starling calmly and politely asking mom for a nibble. If one could translate starling to English, it would come out something like this: : "MOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE SOOOOOOOOOMMMMEEEE!!!"
  6. Common (European) Starling

    Common (European) Starling

    Thank you for your kind comments on my pictures, and good birding! John
  7. Starling fledgling

    Starling fledgling

    Been very busy with some major home improvements, so haven't had much time to visit bird forum or even pick up the camera much this summer so far. No doubt about what this is. Got a few new ones coming into the yard.
  8. Brumie Starling

    Brumie Starling

  9. Common Starling

    Common Starling

    Yesterday I mentioned that a large tree is beginning to obscure the view from my usual birding window, but that it does occasionally provide new photographic opportunities. A few days ago I noticed there was something moving around inside the canopy: eventually this Starling emerged and perched...
  10. Starling at sunset

    Starling at sunset

  11. yummy yummy too

    yummy yummy too

    since at least three years, starlings are breeding in the same cavity of an old plane tree in our garden. today the parents were constantly feeding the young, the diet seemed slightly different than in JB's starling family.
  12. Common starling

    Common starling

    Common starling photographed from the window of the House
  13. Juvenile Starlings taking off

    Juvenile Starlings taking off

  14. Common Starlings taking off

    Common Starlings taking off

  15. Common Starling

    Common Starling

    An introduced species that we don't get many of locally . This one taken in NSW feeding on the flowers of a Silky Oak .
  16. European Starling

    European Starling

    European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Also known as the Common Starling. Breeding plumage. Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Around the pavilion and trailhead to the willows.
  17. common starling with prey

    common starling with prey

    the starlings in our garden are raising their second brood. I took this picture today, not the sharpest one, but the size of its prey is quite impressive! I guess it's a great green bush grasshopper (tettigonia viridissima), judging by its size and the length of the antennae, which one can see...
  18. Concerned Starling

    Concerned Starling

    This parent starling was just about to feed its two fledglings when a Cooper's Hawk exploded on the scene. Everyone scattered, and some minutes later, here she is high in a tree, anxiously calling to her young. Unfortunately, only one returned.
  19. Here today, gone tomorrow

    Here today, gone tomorrow

    Hopefully this will show properly. In the left photo, you can see one of a nesting pair of Starlings sitting on a broken branch of a dead tree. The large cavity opening above is where they were cleaning out and preparing for a nest. Then we had a storm yesterday, and the right photo shows the...
  20. Cold Bath

    Cold Bath

    Starlings don't care about the cold... they bathe whatever the temperature. Through the double glazing - I could have slid open the door, but it was too cold ;)
  21. Common starling

    Common starling

    Dead Sea Every winter a flock of starlings arrive to large green area near resort complex here. There is a little paradise for them: a plenty of food and no predators
  22. Common starling

    Common starling

    Common starling - Sturnus vulgaris - Storno
  23. Common Starling

    Common Starling

  24. Youngster

    Youngster

  25. Youngster

    Youngster

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