judiewudie, I've also been fascinated by those flight formations of starligs, and sometimes find it quite eery, like something out of an Alfred hitchcock moovie. Its almost as if they have some sort of collective thought, a similar thing can be seen in shoals of fish, all chainging direction in unison. In my neck of the woods, i dont see any starlings at all until the spring comes, this is when they all come to feast on the moth caterpllars which feed on the oak leaves