Starling

***Chocky*** · 25-06-2008, 06:10 PM

Captured at Bowling Green Marsh
Making the weirdest of noises

**Babs** · 25-06-2008, 08:31 PM

Nice one Beryl, they are great mimickers, sometime I hear one singing like a car alarm

***Chocky*** · 25-06-2008, 08:53 PM

Thanks Babs

Yes. They are as they are related to the miner birds.
This one seams to have white feathers around the throat

**Babs** · 25-06-2008, 08:58 PM

I have one similar who visits our garden and each time think is that a pied or what

***Chocky*** · 25-06-2008, 09:01 PM

I don't know I have never seen one with whit feathers like that round his neck . So I'm a little baffled . May be I'll ask Rolf

**Babs** · 25-06-2008, 09:09 PM

Sorry Beryl I'm having one of those days, was thinking of the blackbird

***Chocky*** · 25-06-2008, 09:15 PM

That's Ok Babs when I was shooting I thought it was a pied black bird or young crow then when I got home I realised it was a starling

This could be a trick of the light / sun on his iridescent feathers.#
Here is a close up

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Babs Founder Member Info Real name: Barbara Location: Greater Manchester Gallery: 14 Equipment: The equipment I use is a Canon 30D with Sigma 50-500mm lens. I also have a garden hide from which I take most of my pictures. Posts: 1,513 Join Date: Apr 2007 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Nice one Beryl, they are great mimickers, sometime I hear one singing like a car alarm

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Babs Founder Member Info Real name: Barbara Location: Greater Manchester Gallery: 14 Equipment: The equipment I use is a Canon 30D with Sigma 50-500mm lens. I also have a garden hide from which I take most of my pictures. Posts: 1,513 Join Date: Apr 2007 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I have one similar who visits our garden and each time think is that a pied or what

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Babs Founder Member Info Real name: Barbara Location: Greater Manchester Gallery: 14 Equipment: The equipment I use is a Canon 30D with Sigma 50-500mm lens. I also have a garden hide from which I take most of my pictures. Posts: 1,513 Join Date: Apr 2007 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Sorry Beryl I'm having one of those days, was thinking of the blackbird

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