Feeding Frenzy!!

The Starling has the reputation for being one of the noisiest and most gregarious garden birds. The Starling's plumage is mainly blackish with buff edged wing feathers and reddish-brown legs.

In the winter it has white speckles above and below. The sexes are alike though the male has fewer speckles on the rump and wings. The bill is dark grey-brown during the winter.

The speckles disappear through the course of the winter and by the spring the plumage becomes predominantly iridescent with green and purple. The colour of the base of its quite long yellow beak is different in males and females - it is pink for girls and blue for boys.

These starlings were very noisily feeding on a piece of tiger bread I threw out today.