Three of us were rabbit hunting one winter. As were crossing a cut corn field we noticed that the adjacent corn field was covered with thousands of starlings.. They jumped up and flew right over the field as we were crossing it. We just pointed our shotguns skyward and fired. It rained dead starlings. Crazy... but what fun and there was no end to them. The field around us was covered with black dots. Number six and 7.5 shot really hammers them.