Photo taken on Sep 04, 2016

I had experience of hand feeding great tits (in a park in freezing weather), sparrows (in any weather — near small pancake houses), squirrels (no surprise), and even a crow (~20 years ago, in a park, with a curd snack). But starlings? No, in St. Pete starlings, even when they pack into huge murmurations of youngsters, usually would not let you come close enough for a shot from a snapshot camera. Still, in this location, looks like starlings overtook the niche of the sparrows and squeezed them out by weight and numbers. We found the sparrows later — in the zoo…

Moscow, between Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky railway stations

european starling Sturnus vulgaris