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From: notcalm at comcast.net
To: "Jeff Kozma" <jcr_5105 at charter.net>
Cc: "Carol Stoner" <tcstonefam at gmail.com>, Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:34:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Starling Behavior Question


I have seen the same. A few weeks ago, while traveling through Hoquiam, on the way to OS, I stopped to watch many Starlings- 150 over a 15 square block area- fly catching over homes. Most stayed in the air and slowly flew to and fro, without the the return to perch behavior we usually see with flycatchers. It was the first I had seen this behavior. As Jeff has observed, it was a warm Summer afternoon.


Dan Reiff



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kozma" <jcr_5105 at charter.net>
To: "Carol Stoner" <tcstonefam at gmail.com>, Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:02:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Starling Behavior Question

I have observed starlings flycatching in the Yakima area quite regularly.
Seems particularly prevalent on warm summer evenings...so they must be
catching some kind of bugs aloft.

Jeff Kozma

Yakima


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Stoner" <tcstonefam at gmail.com>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:42 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Starling Behavior Question


> I was driving near Bellarmine HS in Tacoma and observed a large (20-30)
> flock of birds actively flycatching from a large Douglas fir. I assumed
> they were Cedar Waxwings based on number of birds and silhouette. The sky
> was too bright to see colors. Thinking about it later, I wondered if the
> flock could have been starlings. Do starlings flycatch?
> Carol Stoner
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