Correct! They appear to be very small bugs, or minced up bits of bug, so the whole thing just looks speckled. The starlings are going mad for it. I bought it from a stall dealing in bird feeds at a fair just before Christmas. It came in a plastic tub and has a string through the middle. Once you get it out of the tub there's a plastic mesh bag you can encase it in as reinforcement for when you hang it. This also prevents guzzlers like the starlings from tearing chunks off.