Field guide No. 1521

A flock of starlings flies belly-up through an empty tiled swimming pool, wings spread under the high windows. The pool has been drained, but the lessons are still on.

Upside down starlings in a dry pool

Synchronised flying, inverted.

A flock of starlings flies belly-up through an empty tiled swimming pool, wings spread under the high windows. The pool has been drained, but the lessons are still on.

Field noteBirds can roll for a moment, but a whole flock flying inverted indoors needs a new idea of up.

Specimen
No. 1521
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A drained public pool, under the high windows.
Nearest existing relative
A flock of pigeons.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics