A Roma, the sky turns black, the antennas bend, the skylights no longer send light. A Hitchcock-esque bird invasion. «Help, in Prati the starlings are back". For a few days the Prati district it is besieged by hundreds, thousands of birds, they move masters of the sky and beyond, from buildings to trees, from gutters to terraces. "An incredible noise, a truly disturbing sight - says Paolo a condominium in via Famagosta - I thought it was raining on the skylight of the stairwell instead I discovered that they had all settled in a row hundreds and hundreds of birds: all there motionless, a phenomenon never seen before.
It is one thing to see them in the sky, another so close ». The whole area, from via Otranto, viale delle Milizie and viale Giulio Cesare is affected by this massive migration. "In short, we are besieged." With some unpleasant gift falling from the sky as they pass, the fear that the dangerous guano will return it had been eradicated. Signora Adriana asked the goalkeeper for help: Giancarlo, what's going on in Rome? ».
And he spreads his arms: "Mo 'tweaks us tonight", with the stampede underneath balconies and canopies... because they seem to come back with a full belly. «In the past they came before Christmas, then they left…». The rumors around the house are many. Mrs. Elena Di Maio, who lives between viale Angelico and viale delle Milizie admits: "Tonight they were scary, I got scared a little. They had disappeared for years, perhaps it is the case that they go back to using the bollard, as it is called, that cry of the hawk used in the past to send them away "(The messenger).