Unfamilar birds to me. Who can help? (1 Viewer)

[websurfer]

At the risk of becoming a laughing stock, I would nevertheless take the liberty of putting the question to more knowledgeable people in here. What birds are in question on the attached video? Which I recorded close to a lake, at Grindsted, Central Jutland in Denmark. Behaves like starlings, but does not have the same shape and is also larger than starlings.. And we're in mid-December and I've never seen starling flocks in Denmark at this time of the year. But again they behave completely like starlings.

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Trust your gut - a flock of Starling indeed. If there is a reedbed at the lake you may be treated to a murmuration in suitable weather (dry, low wind, cool/cold)

 

[websurfer]

Another video

 

[websurfer]

The birds seems bigger than usual, and the fact that I have never seen starlings at this time of the year in Denmark, let me hesitate.
But thanks for helping, dwatsonbirder

 

[PYRTLE]

As Daniel suggests, a murmaration of Starlings. The swirling and concentrations rule out any type of Thrush...did they eventually pitch down into the vegetation (reedbed or similar).

 

[delia todd]

Completely agree with the others... European Starlings in a murmuration.

The shapes they produce with this behaviour is just wonderful to watch and can seem to last for ages, before they suddenly dive down into their roost for the night. You're lucky, I've not seen a murmuration for ages now.

 

[njlarsen]

Starlings do occur. Below is a link to a table with observations in Denmark for the last 7 day (you may have to show you are not a computer/robot to be able to see it:

DOFbasen - af Dansk Ornitologisk Forening

dofbasen.dk

The other important lesson is that we as human beings are poor at determining size -- considerably poorer than we would like to believe.
Niels