allcreatures: Looking like a giant Pacman, thousands of starlings surround a lone bird of prey which had had swooped down to pick off a straggler. Amateur photographer and grandfather Giangiorgio Crisponi, 69, snapped the image near his home in Cagliari, Sardinia. He said: “Starlings have a very particular way of defending themselves from their predators like falcons and harriers. They form a large tightly packed flock and mob their enemy, scaring it off, frequently expanding and contracting and changing shape.” Picture: Giangiorgio Crisponi/solentnews.co.uk (via Pictures of the day: 6 December 2010 - Telegraph) The little birds look like their intimating the wings of the single one.

allcreatures:

Looking like a giant Pacman, thousands of starlings surround a lone bird of prey which had had swooped down to pick off a straggler. Amateur photographer and grandfather Giangiorgio Crisponi, 69, snapped the image near his home in Cagliari, Sardinia. He said: “Starlings have a very particular way of defending themselves from their predators like falcons and harriers. They form a large tightly packed flock and mob their enemy, scaring it off, frequently expanding and contracting and changing shape.”

Picture: Giangiorgio Crisponi/solentnews.co.uk (via Pictures of the day: 6 December 2010 - Telegraph)

The little birds look like their intimating the wings of the single one.

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    Starlings. They’re awful and also unavoidably cool.
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    woahsey, ONE COOL MAX SHOT. wished i had such skills though.
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    NOM NOM NOM PACMANNN
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