The sheer ammount of starlings this time of the year at Ciampino have to be seen to be believed.
Thousands of them whirl around in a huge close formation looking like a gigantic fast moving black apparition, it is a most spectacular sight.
They roost in the trees around the terminal car park and if you leave your vehicle under one of them the next morning it's covered in a most obnoxious mess.
It must have been a most unpleasant sight / feeling to suddenly have the windscreen filled not with a few birds but thousands of them.
Not to mention the noise of them hitting the airframe, it's bad enough when only two or three hit.
Well done to the crew.
Current 737-800
Last edited by aerobat; 11th Nov 2008 at 14:14.
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