Two birds in a dead tree - Eastern Ontario, Canada (1 Viewer)

[Gordon W]

Shot this morning in eastern Ontario, Canada I have absolutely no idea what kind of birds these are. They were so far away I could hardly see them, so this is the best image I could get of them. Hopefully there's enough detail for an ID.

 

[Stonefaction]

Look like young Starlings.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

yes, young European Starlings,
compare:

https://flic.kr/p/TVz4tV

 

[Andy Adcock]

The amount of people who struggle to ID Common Starlings is amazing.

 

[Butty]

Not really. Unless you're an experienced birder, the juveniles are pretty nondescript and they're only around for a short part of the year - and strikingly-different from the much-better-known adults - so I find the frequent puzzlement unsurprising. And the bonus for some of us with our eye in is that it's a dead-easy and uncomplicated ID that makes us feel jolly clever 🥳 Everybody happy.

 

[Gordon W]

Not really. Unless you're an experienced birder, the juveniles are pretty nondescript and they're only around for a short part of the year - and strikingly-different from the much-better-known adults - so I find the frequent puzzlement unsurprising. And the bonus for some of us with our eye in is that it's a dead-easy and uncomplicated ID that makes us feel jolly clever 🥳 Everybody happy.

Yes, Butty, jolly clever. These young starlings fool me every time.

Thanks to all who replied.

 

[Scott98]

Juvenile anything is hard for me to ID

 

[Butty]

Juvenile anything is hard for me to ID

Most of us would feel your pain - at least from time to time - but.... juvenile starlings do actually have a (subtle) distinctiveness all of their own: plain grey-brown all over, pointed at both ends, and with a contrastingly dark lore; on the ground they bustle about like the adults do, if - like juvenile everythings everywhere - with less idea about what they're doing or how to do it.