Starling

[Chocky]

Captured at Bowling Green Marsh
Making the weirdest of noises

[Babs]

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

[Chocky]

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

[Babs]

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

[Chocky]

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]

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

[Chocky]

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