Starlings and the Cormorant Tree
There’s a Cormorant coming in fast and low. The sun is setting and it’s time to roost at the Lago di Chiusi:
![Lago di Chiusi - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lago-di-Chiusi-The-Hall-of-Einar-7761-725x725.jpg)
They are all heading for the same tree on the water’s edge:
![Lago di Chiusi - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lago-di-Chiusi-The-Hall-of-Einar-7794-725x483.jpg)
We’re strolling in the evening air, admiring the Cormorants and I’m just considering counting them, when a Starling murmuration arrives in the sky like crazy smoke:
![Lago di Chiusi - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lago-di-Chiusi-The-Hall-of-Einar-7797-725x483.jpg)
They fly over the Cormorant tree in a great arc:
![Lago di Chiusi - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lago-di-Chiusi-The-Hall-of-Einar-7798-725x483.jpg)
And I forget all about counting Cormorants.