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Uploaded: 04/15/07 3:26 PM GMT
Sturnus vulgaris
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The European Starling . Please feel free to fire at will on this devestating bird. These are terrible to have around as they're mean & nasty, running off our pretty song birds and even killing Eastern Bluebirds to take over a nest. So...ready, aim, fire!!

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::100k_xle
04/15/07 3:42 PM GMT
Great color and Detail. Well Done.

E J
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::cinny7
04/15/07 3:49 PM GMT
Great profile this birdy has! :) Very nice shot...love how it stands out against the blurry background!
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In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10
Jabberjaws
04/15/07 4:36 PM GMT
Beautiful beautiful and great frame work. Nice capture.

JJ :D~
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"I had alphabet soup for dinner last night and I just can't stop bringing them back up again" ..... Just leave me alone and let me be myself
::jswgpb
04/15/07 4:47 PM GMT
BLAM BLAM just to make sure. :) They are nasty birds.
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Always remember - Follow the Yellow Brick Road, it will lead you to the Emerald City and OZ A very nice place to repose. Trust me on this one, I live there. :-)................ MY GALLERY - THE LION****Another Site I'm AT - MY DA HOMEPAGE
::sailorman6309
04/15/07 5:05 PM GMT
I'm wondering if our friends in Europe call this an American Starling! Whichever, they are nasty indeed. I'm also no fan of big brown Cowbirds, which lay their eggs in the nests of songbirds and leave them to be hatched and then raised by others. However, the cowbird nestlings are so much larger and more agressive, they get the food while the songbird young perish. Nature is unsympathetic....
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::DigiCamMan
04/15/07 6:21 PM GMT
Just have them deported. Thanks for the pic, a nice one at that, now we know what they look like so we can turn them in.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. Albert Camus ........ My Gallery
.ted3020
04/15/07 8:09 PM GMT
A messy bird that has no respect for others and their property. They will continue trying to build a nest even if you destroy it day after day.
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::phasmid
04/15/07 8:55 PM GMT
Well, I'm not usually one for bird bashing, but I'll join in, and I do have to say that no matter how many ugly characteristics this unruly bad boy of nature has, you've certainly presented him in a very beautiful way. Nice shot..BAM.....

♥♥♥♥PJ

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"If it makes you cry, it goes in the show." Annie Leibovitz (photographer 1949 - )
::cynlee
04/15/07 9:49 PM GMT
Wonderful comp with great dof and even though they are 'bad guys', they sure are pretty posing on your fence like that. Nice closeup, Randy!
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You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being. - Hermes
::LynEve
04/16/07 2:14 AM GMT
They also spread human diseases and deface and sometimes damage buildings with their droppy do's.
I still can not bring myself to BAM this one though
Great pic Randy.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see ~ Marcel Proust
::Dunstickin
04/16/07 6:55 AM GMT
Really Vulgar eh!....We have a couple of fairly 'tame' ones in our garden at the mo!.....nice shot though!
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::snapdragonk
04/16/07 7:34 AM GMT
Absolutely superb image Randy, the focus and clarity is very impressive, well done.
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::Hottrockin
04/16/07 10:03 AM GMT
Thanks everybody for taken a shot at this nasty fella, I sure appreciate it!! 8~)
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::JQ
04/16/07 10:29 AM GMT
lol, nasty he may be, but you caught a great shot of him!
(shame you missed with the bam bam) lol
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::verenabloo
04/17/07 8:08 AM GMT
Kaboooooooooooooooom!!!!!! but with all the kindness in your heart ya still got a good 'shot' of your own kind sweets! V
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What did the blonde say when she opened the box of Cheerios?....Aren't those cute little donut seeds?!!!
::MarianaEwa
04/18/07 10:11 PM GMT
Excellent picture of this little "bad guy" :) He maybe bad and nasty but he sure is cute :)
Im so very behind in my comments but I will catch up soon :)
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.Catharina1
11/14/08 7:41 PM GMT
Beauty this bird. Well done Randy!
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