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I Chase Starlings To Capture The Intricate Shapes They Make
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I Chase Starlings To Capture The Intricate Shapes They Make

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Starlings murmuration is amazing to see.

I’ve been chasing starlings for a couple of years to take pictures, and sometimes when you get home after the shooting only then u realize what amazing shapes they did.

The seal image and other starlings pics i took u can see in the gallery i opened for this year in the link below

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Nadine Ducca
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Picture it. Carcassonne. France. 2016. My husband, my aunt and I are visiting the city. We just had an early dinner and were heading back to the hotel. Overhead, clouds of starlings fly and chirp in mesmerizing shapes. I take out my phone and stop to record them as thousands swoop and swirl above me. Nature is breathtaking. The individual starling vanishes and becomes something much larger, much greater, a massive consciousness swarming the sky. I stop recording, smiling, and round the corner to catch up to my aunt and husband. Just as I'm about to remark on the beauty of the birds, my husband shouts "they POOPED on me!!!" My aunt is already handing him some tissues. That's the end of that. lol

Cassie
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in a small house on a farm and every now and then huge flocks would land on the house and in the yard and in the woods around the yard and the sound they made taking off and flying all together was incredible. It was truly awesome to be among them.

Marion Friedl
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool, nature´s really stunning sometimes, and starlings (or other birds that fly "in formation") actually really form other animals, f. ex. sometimes their swarms look like one giant bird, this to confuse predator birds, the same phenomenon´s known from fish swarms, they often form one giant fish that may look like a giant whale (of course whales´re mammals, not fish)!!!

Allayna
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, and the human profile pic kind of looks like Homer from the side to me lol XD

Allayna
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember there was a tree inhabited by birds at a worksite I went to with my dad, and at dusk, they would all go to that tree. It was a little far off, like a few blocks away. Well, I was messing around in the backyard and the tree was insight, right? Well, I waved my arms all big and ALL of those birds flew off that tree, making this massive blob of birds that looked a lot like a storm. I saw this and I continued doing it whenever I went to to that jobsite, I miss it so much, it was a pretty little property. :)

Alia G.
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonderful photos! Starlings are beautiful birds, but it’s always a shame when they come to bird feeder cause they chase all the other birds away... wow i sound boring

Hanne Godiksen
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Denmark, we call this phenomenon "sort sol" (= black sun). It is a beautiful sight... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBtHFEphI68

Lobsang Yangchin
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The second one doesn't look like a donkey it instead looks like a turtle when it's inside the water

Nadine Ducca
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Picture it. Carcassonne. France. 2016. My husband, my aunt and I are visiting the city. We just had an early dinner and were heading back to the hotel. Overhead, clouds of starlings fly and chirp in mesmerizing shapes. I take out my phone and stop to record them as thousands swoop and swirl above me. Nature is breathtaking. The individual starling vanishes and becomes something much larger, much greater, a massive consciousness swarming the sky. I stop recording, smiling, and round the corner to catch up to my aunt and husband. Just as I'm about to remark on the beauty of the birds, my husband shouts "they POOPED on me!!!" My aunt is already handing him some tissues. That's the end of that. lol

Cassie
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in a small house on a farm and every now and then huge flocks would land on the house and in the yard and in the woods around the yard and the sound they made taking off and flying all together was incredible. It was truly awesome to be among them.

Marion Friedl
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool, nature´s really stunning sometimes, and starlings (or other birds that fly "in formation") actually really form other animals, f. ex. sometimes their swarms look like one giant bird, this to confuse predator birds, the same phenomenon´s known from fish swarms, they often form one giant fish that may look like a giant whale (of course whales´re mammals, not fish)!!!

Allayna
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, and the human profile pic kind of looks like Homer from the side to me lol XD

Allayna
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember there was a tree inhabited by birds at a worksite I went to with my dad, and at dusk, they would all go to that tree. It was a little far off, like a few blocks away. Well, I was messing around in the backyard and the tree was insight, right? Well, I waved my arms all big and ALL of those birds flew off that tree, making this massive blob of birds that looked a lot like a storm. I saw this and I continued doing it whenever I went to to that jobsite, I miss it so much, it was a pretty little property. :)

Alia G.
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonderful photos! Starlings are beautiful birds, but it’s always a shame when they come to bird feeder cause they chase all the other birds away... wow i sound boring

Hanne Godiksen
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Denmark, we call this phenomenon "sort sol" (= black sun). It is a beautiful sight... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBtHFEphI68

Lobsang Yangchin
Community Member
6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The second one doesn't look like a donkey it instead looks like a turtle when it's inside the water

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