Fred Basset by Alex Graham for January 26, 2016

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    prasrinivara  almost 9 years ago

    Way too many — at least these are still in UK, and not descended from 13 birds stupidly imported into US by some who wanted “all birds mentioned in Shakespeare” to be there.

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    Dean  almost 9 years ago

    BBC America did just run Hitchcock’s The Birds this past weekend.

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    juicebruce  almost 9 years ago

    A lot !

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    David W Cairns  almost 9 years ago

    Someone just washed his car.

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    franksmin  almost 9 years ago

    Someone please enlighten me here………what is the guesstimate for, is this about some introduced bird species into Britain? Something like the well-thought-out introduction of rabbits into Australia?

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    Retired Dude  almost 9 years ago

    That’s called a murmuration. For a cool video go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY .

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    annette143NotMe  almost 9 years ago

    Bats! ever see a group of bats fly like that?I’ve seen geese do that. amazing how they hold formation in such a tight cluster.

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    mggreen  almost 9 years ago

    Ho-latta Starlings, to sho!

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    neverenoughgold  almost 9 years ago

    Is it too late to say this strip is going to the birds?

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    Kirk Barnes Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Time to get your vehicles under cover!

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    annette143NotMe  almost 9 years ago

    @Triviaguy In Texas huh? I saw King Of the Hill episode about a huge cave full of bats. starlings must be ‘batty’ as in crazy. I see videos at utube of them flying into moving cars :/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-the-1920s-washington-had-birds-on-the-brain/2015/09/29/81f6bb0c-66ae-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html

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