You've heard of birds on a wire, but what about a murmuration?

If you were to affix a descriptive label to me, the term "luddite" would be a good fit. True to the word's definition, I am not a cheerleader for many of today's technological advances. If I were to guess, my advanced age of seven decades (plus a couple of extra years) no doubt has a lot to do with this.

That being said, let me serve as your guide to the World Wide Web. Start by typing this request into a search engine: YouTube murmuration videos. That will send you tumbling head first down into a rabbit hole of curious wonderment. If you were under the impression that the bird watching hobby was the forte of only stodgy and uninteresting members of the human population, watching film footage of what a flock of starlings can do will undoubtedly win you over.

This is the time of the year when you are apt to see a murmuration in the skies right here in central Oklahoma. Often as not, it is a wake up call for you to search the heavens for a glimpse of a peregrine falcon. The murmuration is a behavioral response of the starlings to evade capture by this bird of prey.

At the very least, the murmuration videos on the computer are a delightful way to while away the hours if the weather outside is either too cold or too rainy for you to venture onto a woodland hiking trail.

Neil Garrison was the longtime naturalist at a central Oklahoma nature center. His email is atlatlgarrison@hotmail.com.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Starling flocks can create mid-flight designs, called murmurations