Fred Widall wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:01 PM: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwwidall/9152199/ > > On Sunday afternoon while watching Tiger's Masters victory I set up > my *istDS, F70-210mm, hooked up a homemade cable release and practiced > taking some bird shots. This was probably my best shot of the afternoon.
Nice shot. The bird's positioning and pose really work. Unfortunately it is not a starling either... It's a common grackle "Quiscalus quiscula" Starlings have yellow, much thinner bills. Technically a grackle is a "blackbird" because it is in the family "Icteridae" grackle: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i5110id.html starling: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4930id.html -- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

