Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Murmuration of Starlings on Granta Park on Saturday 19th Dec.

Andy took these pictures of the fabulous mini-murmuration of Starlings on Granta Park. He says that photos really don't do justice to the beauty of the spectacle. 

The show started at around 3:40pm with just a few birds, but as small flocks continually joined the group, the numbers swelled to over 800!  This larger flock swirled and wheeled around over the TWI buildings for about 20 minutes, starting off as a more diffuse, spread-out flock, but slowly the Starlings flew in ever-tighter formation, until a 'tight ball' of birds finally descended as one into the reeds, just as it got dark. Truly spectacular!






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