Ebbie, these are Starlings as most of us know them: European Starlings (unless you live where Splendid Starlings are native).

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I resent Starlings, and have ever since I watched them methodically pushing baby Barn Swallows out of their mud-nests in my grandfather's old barn. They have been the quintessential invasive species, not being native here at all. One hardly ever sees a Barn Swallow now, and the skies used to be full of them, hundreds of them would sit on the power lines. There were dozens of nests in that old barn, wiped out in a few seasons by Starlings.