Paolo Patrizi | European Starlings
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 | Author: doug | Filed under: Photography, QuotesStarlings are notoriously difficult to “control.” The story is told of a man who was bothered by starlings roosting in a large sycamore near his house. He said he tried everything to get rid of them and finally took a shotgun to three of them and killed them. When asked if that discouraged the birds, he reflected a minute, leaned forward, and said confidentially, “Those three it did.”
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Quartiere Giuliano Dalmata, Rome, Italy, 2009 © Paolo Patrizi
Murmuration #5, Rome, Italy, 2009 © Paolo Patrizi
E.U.R., Rome, Italy,2009 © Paolo Patrizi
Lungotevere Marzio, Rome, Italy, 2009 © Paolo Patrizi
Murmuration #9, Rome, Italy, 2009 © Paolo Patrizi
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These are awesome photos of Starlings; starlings are like brief stippling art for our sky’s!
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