I'm not moving..

A wee waxeye was waiting (in previous photo) while Stewart Starling wouldn't move from this bowl of honey'd bread!

This photo also looks great on the black.

[Joy's Focus]

Fabulous detail! Fav!

[Rach_who]

Impressive display of feathers

[Bev]

Great capture, Maggie. I love how its feathers are metallic looking. They may be considered a pest, but they still make great photo subjects.

[Sandra McGowan]

absolutely stunning - a special capture

[Boxplayer]

Love the way the light picks up their iridescent colours. Just googled a waxeye, they're very sweet and pretty.

[The Intermittent Photographer aka Blue Rose]

Beautiful colours.

[Graeme Stevens]

superb shot, great clarity and details

[ShirleyB]

Again stunning on black. Lovely colours in the starling.

[Beryl Lloyd]

A super shot capturing all his translucent colours so sharp and clear ---Wonderful on black , and a fav !

[Joyce]

We have loads of starlings at the moment. they don't seem to have a civil word to say to each other. they argue and fight all the time! This is a great shot it's not easy to capture the colours in their feathers as well as this. Fav

[Maggiemae]

@thistle thank you Joyce for your comment! I don't like starlings also - they are rude crude and unattractive in character - but not in feathering!

[Liana Bull]

Great chat. Fav

[Barb]

This looks wonderful on black - love the sheen and colour of his feathers. We have them in our garden too, bullying the smaller birds away from the feeders - couldn't agree more Maggie and Joyce

[richard saffold]

they are very pretty birds when they quit bickering and hold still.

[Carolyn]

Nice shot. The feathers look so metallic they almost look painted.

[Pam Knowler]

Lovely colourful feathers - great capture!! Such noisy aggressive birds!!

[Kim Harper]

Oh, a bird standoff - how exciting! I don't see these birds in our area of the U.S. Great detail captured on both photos!

[Taffy]

Love the deep color and sheen! It's beautiful.

[katy]

Beautiful light in this one as well but the bird is not nearly as cute!

[Graham Thresher]

Nice capture.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Super shot.

[Pat Knowles]

The plain ordinary Mr Starling is not so plain after all!! He is beautiful when you look closely! They always look cross & bad tempered ....the bully boys of the bird world!

[Myrna O'Hara]

what fantastic colors

[Maggiemae]

@happypat He looks belligerent here, Pat - there's nothing left in the dish but he's not moving to let little Miss Waxeye in.

[tony gig]

Lovely detailed shot.

[Tony]

Fabulous detail and love the shine of the feathers.

[belinda]

Wow, the colours and detail are fantastic.

[Maggie]

When i saw this I went ... Ahhh with satisfaction and envy. I have dreamed of such a shot. Instant fav.

[Rosan]

Excellent capture!

[Osia Strasner]

That bird looks determined!! I saw two morning doves building another nest in our yard this morning, but I am afraid I scared them away taking photos of them with my bazooka of a lens! :-(((

[Mary Siegle]

Fantastic starling photo. So cool to see these birds as up close as your camera is able to bring me.

[Maggiemae]

@mcsiegle thank you Mary! Getting good light seems to be the key to getting a good bird shot and that's not always available!