Claxton,Norfolk It’s odd to deem of them as chimney-pot solitaries in Warsaw or KrakowOne of the striking aspects of starling flocks is the lack of rhythm in their flight. It looks all metropolitan bustle and hurry, but as I emerge on the track by the marsh I can hear the air rush through all those wings. Then there comes that eternal rash (hasty, incautious) of brittle notes that is the essence of starling palaver.
There are approximately 400, and probably fresh in on yesterdays north-easterlies and originally from Russia or Poland. It’s odd to deem of them as chimney-pot solitaries in Warsaw or Krakow – where they call them szpak each producing that quirky wing-flicking spring bluster,or stabbing worm mush into the yellow-lined flowerheads of their begging youngsters.
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Source: theguardian.com