John (FastGlass)....one more correction for you; the bird you've ID'd a female Starling is a female Red-wing blackbird. Simply, the beak is the give away; starlings have long, narrow, normally yellow beaks and stouter bodies.


ID for the woodpecker (just in case) is a Downy....looks exactly like a Hairy, but much smaller body and (here's that beak again) a shorter beak.


Nice collection of birds in the rain John....your wx looks pretty similar to ours (Boston, MA area)....WET!! We're having a terrible spring.


It's ruining my daily pix of the owlet's growth....I went over yesterday and took my cycling rain jacket......not for me, but for the 500. I don't have a rain jacket to cover my set up. []