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I have captured this interval video for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia of the sunrise from the balcony of my house, in the town of Altet (Urgell).
You can see the birds fluttering around, but still one in particular that appears in extreme close-up for just a thousandth of a second. Can you see it?
If you have a hard time watching it, I suggest you pause the video at second 9 and maybe it will be easier for you to catch it. If you freeze the image you will be able to see it. In fact, it is the bird that appears in the main photograph of this report, extracted as a capture from the video.
In Altet it is easy to see birds such as starlings, which are known to form large flocks that can be beneficial for agriculture to combat pests, since they consume large quantities of insects and other invertebrates.
Although they can also be a nuisance when the flocks spend the night on cables or urban poles, due to the volume of noise and the excrement they produce.
