Futility Closet

Fragments of Night

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on November 28th, 2006

http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=309856

Each spring, more than a million European starlings migrate through the marshlands of western Denmark, where they appear in mass formations like this shortly before sunset each day.

The Danes call it the "black sun."