Hi Tweets,

How fast do starlings fly? Come on you Bird bookers.

Speaking of swarming flocks of starlings in South Seattle, I was literally
guarding a rest room on the third level of the new Seahawks stadium today
and between 4:30 an 5 PM I started seeing large flocks of starlings doing
their flocking thing, mostly flying N. But the darker it got the straighter
their flight and the more directly N it was. There must have been
thousands, if not tens of thousands and they looked like were easily flying
twice as fast as the northbound traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Some
were right next to the stadium some were barely visible dots over the
water.

Even watching starlings is better than watching a rest room.

Cliff

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Cliff Drake
SW Ballard, Seattle, WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net