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Fort Point murmuration

By adamg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 9:34am
Birds at dusk over Wormwood Park

The Fort Pointer watched starlings doing some synchronized flying over Wormwood Park in Fort Point at dusk the other day.

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By Katey on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 10:45am.

Thanks for sharing

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By SamWack on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 2:48pm.

is an excellent name for a tiny park situated between two huge parking lots, directly over the Mass Pike. I can imagine Hamlet sitting on a bench, muttering, rehearsing the scene in his head.

PLAYER QUEEN: O, confound the rest!
Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
In second husband let me be accurst;
None wed the second but who killed the first.

HAMLET: Wormwood, wormwood.

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By Don't Panic on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 11:25pm.

Truly one of nature's wonders. I was absolutely gobsmacked watching literally thousands of blackbirds doing this at Lackland AFB in Texas back in the 1970s. Up until then I thought the flocks of pigeons on the Boston Common were impressive.

Judging from the picture we're looking at hundreds of starlings. That's actually pretty impressive for an urban landscape.

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