Drop-in guests (Backyard Nature)

Today's visitors:  a flock of starlings, out for anything they could find on the ground as the ice melted.  Down they came, all at once; then something startled them, and up they all whooshed, for about ten seconds; then down again, up again, like a game of Simon Says.  And then on to someone else's yard.

Photo and more at this bird site.