<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nancy, that was great, as good a murmuration show as I’ve seen! They really do work against predators. I watched starlings at Astoria doing that for many minutes one time, and a Peregrine repeatedly flew through them with no success.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2023, at 7:08 AM, Nancy Morrison <<a href="mailto:weedsrus1@gmail.com" class="">weedsrus1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I was in the Skagit Valley on Friday, and one of my goals was to watch the Dunlin murmurating. It was high tide, so they had moved inland to a flooded field. Within a minute of setting up my tripod, I was witness to one of the better displays I have seen. There was a Peregrine chasing them which made it all the better. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkv-RWHNaEg" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkv-RWHNaEg</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nancy Morrison</div></div>
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