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I took this photo of two European Starlings inside my fenced in cat garden in the mountains of Northern California. Luckily the cats were locked inside the house. The starlings seemed very gentle and tame. They sat together on this log pecking at tiny seedlings and did not seem to notice me hiding in the open window clicking away pictures.
Another interesting fact is these birds are not native to the US. They came from Europe originally. In 1890 there were 60 birds released in Central Park, New York by a Eugene Schieffelin. He was trying to introduce every bird species to North America that was mentioned in the writings of William Shakespeare. Now they have grown to be 200 million decendents from the original 60.
*wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Starlings
