I have a STARLING submission to make here

[Ptah]

Beautiful beak:

[many a good man]

1. You must be English.

Starlings are an invasive species. They invade the nests of native birds, break the eggs, and leave their own to be raised unwittingly by the innocent hosts. Their shrill, dissonant song aggravates all that hear it.

And after a few hundred years they turn into Tea Baggers.

[Ptah]

2. Not a copycat, but a mockingbird thing

[Capn Sunshine]

3. I got yer Starling right here

Hello, Clarice

[hunter]

4. They eat garden snails here, an even worse invasive species.

For that I praise them.

[XemaSab]

5. .

:D

[marzipanni]

6. Can you tell if this is a starling?

My bird book doesn't show any with a white throat. It seemed a bit larger than the dark ones I see close to Sacramento.
I took this photo in October in Santa Cruz. The tree was really pretty, covered with clusters of yellow flowers, but in this photo they look green.