Every day now for the past couple of weeks, we've been visited by a flock of about 20 marauding, noisy European Starlings that descend upon our feeders like feather-covered locusts. They are as beautiful as they are boisterous, and this collage is an attempt to highlight their irredescent array of colors. I have taken the liberty of pumping up the saturation a little bit, but when the sun shines on their feathers, these colors are true! They are absolutely stunning birds!!

This image was taken in January, 2012.