Birds on a Fence

Someone help me out -- what kind of birds?

[Janelle]

Sorry can't help with the name of this bird. The shot is great though!!

[Debra]

I'm not sure either. The beaks suggest that they eat hard shelled nuts, shellfish, or are in the sapsucker family. If it is near ocean water I would think possibly in the Sandpiper family otherwise possibly in the same family as a nuthatch...although these definately are not nuthatches themselves. It appears pretty green here, so the speckles could indicate that they are immature.

[juletee]

@debrac I am not anywhere near an ocean . . . these birds are in Illinois. Does that help?

[juletee]

@debrac Someone suggested that this may be a starling - and after looking it up I believe it is a young starling. Thanks for your help

[Debra]

@juletee Yea, it could very well be a starling.