Rome

Just back from Rome, were I spend the last three days seeing a lot of great architecture. Sadly, didn't really have any time to check some Roman birds. However there was one amazing phenomenon I witnessed in person for the first time - a massive Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) roost - all along the river Tiber in the evenings.

There were surely a few million of these birds and as they gathered for the night a large part of the city stung of fresh bird dropping.
Sadly because of my position while this was happening I didn't manage to get any decent snaps of them in cloud formations. What a sight that was! Check out a you tube video that someone has posted about the same from Rome - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YadP3w7vkJA

The only other bird that I managed to watch for a while was the Hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
Snapped above walking in the ancient Roman forum.