Yesterday Olive was dashing from the dining room to the kitchen to see all the starlings on the fire escape. R. was doing laundry and when I went to the washtub oracle room there were so many exciting starlings, and then they all went silent looking up at the roof, and I think a hawk was watching, and many crows converged and then landed cawing in the cottonwood tree. This morning we saw a murmuration of starlings pursued by and eluding a hawk and it looked like the hawk was herding the murmuration and then they all disappeared.