{"id":278,"date":"2007-01-12T07:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-01-13T20:33:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:33:46","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWell, I was going to do an entry about do-it-yourself mole traps resulting in death by electrocution, but Kevin<\/a> beat me to it in this entry<\/a> (with hilarious animated gif of a gopher.) So, I thought there must be another interesting animal story out there and my spouse referred me to the Starlings of San Rafael<\/a>.
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\nIt seems that a large flock of starlings has taken to gathering over a cemetery in the town of San Rafael in Marin County California. This flock of birds then orchestrates itself into a number of Hitchcock-inspired designs before flying away again. See for yourself below in these pictures published in the Marin Independent Journal<\/a>.
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\nIf you liked this entry, Digg It!<\/a>
\nTune: Birds<\/a> by Neil Young<\/a>
\nTechnorati Tags: Starlings<\/a> | Formation<\/a> | Acrobatics<\/a> | Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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