Here on the south coast of UK, every evening, this happens....

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f23_1510265232

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And thanks to someone deciding to bring them over during the colonial period we get to see them do that here too!

Scratch the above. Evidently that was a folktale. According to Wikipedia they came over much later, in the 1890's.

Wikipedia-

The European starling was purposefully introduced to North America in 1890–1891 by the American Acclimatization Society, an organization dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for cultural and economic reasons. Eugene Schieffelin, chairman at the time, allegedly decided all birds mentioned by William Shakespeare should be in North America. The bird had been mentioned in Henry IV, Part 1, and a hundred of them were released from New York's Central Park.[6]

They're looking for my car.

We get them around here and they are fantastic to watch. They fly around as one over our fields and occasionally land on the roof of our house making an amazingly loud racket.

Silent

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Originally posted by arfmel:
They're looking for my car.

. Mine too. We need flying whales.

Flying mice are they.