# check these birds out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656 "2008-07-08T04:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/1 "2008-07-08T04:39:22Z")
[http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=8704649](http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=8704649) Man I feel like I was watching a Hitchcock movie! I found this video pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/2 "2008-07-08T04:49:02Z")
Neat! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/3 "2008-07-08T07:32:35Z")
Those are starlings flocking before settling to roost - an amazing sight I can never grow tired of watching. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/4 "2008-07-08T11:51:07Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Those are starlings flocking before settling to roost - an amazing sight I can never grow tired of watching. [/QUOTE] When they’re doing it several feet above your car on the highway it’s not so amazing. It’s more ‘scary’. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/5 "2008-07-08T12:25:50Z")
Wow. Just wow. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/6 "2008-07-08T12:33:21Z")
[QUOTE=hotflungwok] When they’re doing it several feet above your car on the highway it’s not so amazing. It’s more ‘scary’. [/QUOTE] When they do it right over your head, it’s unpleasantly messy, so I hear. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/7 "2008-07-08T13:00:57Z")
That looked like the day after Thanksgiving at Macys. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/8 "2008-07-08T13:30:45Z")
I knew this would be about starlings before I even opened the thread; they freak me out, but in a good way. There are just so damn _many_ of them that all flock and roost together at once – hundreds, even thousands of them flying in a massive tight cluster appearing almost as a seething, undulating, pulsating, screechy mass – you know, like Ann Coulter, but without the ugly hate. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-these-birds-out/455656/9 "2008-07-08T14:40:27Z")
Crebain from Dunland! Hide!