SINGING STARLING

One of the Starlings from the garden, singing his heart out, celebrating a lovely sunny, if cold day.
Note his throat feathers all fluffed up.

[Beth Sheppard]

Amazing shot!

[Pam Knowler]

Fabulous closeup - great details - fav!!

[Graham Thresher]

A great capture

[virtualbrownie]

Fantastic plumage

[Susan]

Great capture, Mark!

[melissa]

Fav! Starlings are so hard to capture and you've done it beautifully.

[Beryl Lloyd]

I love it !! fav

[Rosie Kind]

wonderful shot of his stunning plumage - Fav

[James_Nicholas]

Love this Mark, good work

[Louise]

Fantastic shot!

[Maggiemae]

Excellent shot showing the irridescence of the common old starling! fav

[Susanne]

Hi Mark, this is an instant FAV you captured the colors really well ...I especially like the throat feathers how they fan out!

[Anja]

Absolutely gorgeous! Love the colors and patterns on the feathers and the throat feathers are beautiful.

[Pam]

Excellent shot!!

[Tony King]

Nice capture, Mark.

[Milanie]

Amazing close-up - love the lighting and the details on the feathers.

[Lois Bird]

Great colors and detail!

[Emilie Cartoun]

Perfect starling.

[Terri]

Wow, great shot! Love the detail.

[Jo]

His throat was the first thing I notice...great capture...fav for me!

[Jan Rose]

Beautiful detail and colour.

[Kristina Olsen]

this is terrific!

[Heidi]

Perfect. Doesn't get any better than this. Fav

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Fabulous shot.

[Lesley Aldridge]

Beautiful colours, one of the birds we don't get in our garden.

[Jen Hudson]

This is such a sight, you never really see all their lovely colouring normally.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Exquisite capture instant FAV!!!

[Lisa Poland]

Wow! Fabulous feathers!

[Milanie]

Spectacular detail - what amazing focus you had here. All of their beautiful colors show up so well - not my favorite bird (mainly because they tend to show up in such large numbers) but you can't help but think they're beautiful when you see a close-up like this. Fav

[Issi Bannerman]

Fantastic image of this bird. As Milanie says, not my favourite bird either, BUT this is a wonderful image which shows up so much detail and colour.

[Scott]

Sunning image... Fav!

[Lisa]

Lovely image!

[Maggie]

It is my dream to take a shot like this - envy envy. Fav.

[Mark Prince]

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Thank you all for your fabulous response to this shot, thank you very much for all your views, wonderful comments and all your Favs, Thank you again.

[llindi]

perfect