Hi Jim, many thanks, good to see you here again, and glad to be back also, after my hard drive "meltdown" :) This snow was a bit of a shock in our region, we are usually spoiled around here, but it's gone now so all are happy.

glad you also like this one, Alex D, - I really like all the rows of spots too :) - all in nice patterns. Maybe he's one of a kind :) His eye is open and a bit more noticeable in the original version.

thanks again, Janice :)

thanks Carol, glad you like it. Am surprised you don't see starlings there, thought they were everywhere, - here they usually gather in the farmlands, but during snowy/cold weeather they find bird feeders in peoples' gardens and gobble everything up in no time :) Then they take off again when the weather improves.

thanks for all the nice comments, glad you liked it also, - Les, Alex, Alan and Don. I was surprised about your birdbath freezing over Alan. I hesitated putting a starling pic up on the gallery, knowing how people think they are pests, but liked the markings etc on this one.

WOW!! there isn't anything "plain" about that starling,great shot.

Super photo Alandra! I think the Starlings are very pretty with all of there many colors. I'm also amazed at how birds can take the cold. At night my birdbath will freeze, I go out in the mornings and break up the ice and throw out the big chunks. Then the birds will show up and take baths in the water with the little chunks of ice in it. Brrrr I get shivers just watching them.

love the colours in the feathers in this one.