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Thousands of Starlings coming in to roost on Shapwick Heath this evening: image via Mark Pollock @PollockMark, 29 January 2014
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Starlings at Westwood Marshes, Suffolk: photo by Neil MP / Green Shoots via The Guardian, 17 October 2014 ![Embedded image permalink]()
One more #Murmurations from tonight in the Peak: image via Mick Ryan @vertical_brain, 5 March 2014
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BBC News - Starlings: Mapping and modelling the ballet of the skies: image via Carol @RickysFlower, 27 October 2014
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See stunning images of #starlings putting on incredible displays in #Scotland: image via ScotsUSA@scotsusa, 6 November 2014
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Breathtaking > MT @BTO: #starling murmurations are like liquid helium apparently - who knew?: image via Dominic Mitchell @birdingetc, 29 October 2014 ![]()
Autumn, near Gretna Green. Dark clouds begin to form in the sky above fields, woodlands and reed beds. But these are no ordinary clouds. They are one of the UK’s most incredible wildlife spectacles: starlings starting their autumnal murmuration: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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Throughout the autumn and winter months, hundreds of thousands of starlings turn the sky black around the UK. The birds come together in huge clouds, wheeling, turning and swooping in unison in formations known as murmurations: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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Starlings join forces for many reasons. Grouping together offers safety in numbers – predators such as peregrine falcons find it hard to target one bird amid a hypnotising flock of thousands: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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Starlings also gather to keep warm at night and to exchange information, such as good feeding areas. They often feed miles away from where they roost – sometimes up to 20 miles away. They return to their roosting site at around the same time each evening: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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Early evening, just before dusk, is the best time to see them across the UK as they perform their aerial dance and choose their communal night-time shelter. They roost in places that are sheltered from harsh weather and predators: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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They tend to roost in woodlands, but reedbeds, cliffs, buildings and industrial structures are also used. During the day, however, they form daytime roosts at exposed places such as treetops, where the birds have good all-round visibility: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
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Autumn roosts usually begin to form in November, though this varies from site to site and some can begin as early as September. More and more birds will flock together as the weeks go on, and the number of starlings in a roost can swell to around 100,000 in some places: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014 ![]()
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Good morning world. Moon setting next to Table Mountain from Somerset West: image via Alfred Thorpe @vuurtoring. 6 November 2014
There is a grapefruit moon out there and tart cherry juice
Was the arthritis remedy suggested to me by the woman who had just emerged from her vehicle after
Demolishing it in a four-car pileup out front on the freeway feeder, and as
The crowd gathered, I looked up, saw spots
Created by the sunlight filtering through the polluted walnut trees
The phenomenon which causes the continuous house rocking heart stopping chain collisions here on the freeway feeder
As the uphill speeders come round the S curve, floor it to make it through the light, are blinded
The social order that was is no more there is only the race to make it through
The light, and there, the ragged OG, I took thought, nobody cared or noticed
As always happens since that Jetta jolted my membership in the social
Order and the chaos to be controlled, to be controlled, that
Would be the aim as indeed it must be to survive
Within the murmuration, the mutually protective gathering of souls in migration,
There's just no way to say it that applies
To this doomed isolato species, whereas the starlings are numerous and sociable, they gather together, they will survive
A murmuration of starlings fills the evening sky above Gretna, Scotland: photo by Scott Heppell / Associated Press, 2011
Amazing shot from Copter4 of tonight's #fullmoon as an airplane from @DENAirport flies through the frame: image via Mark Neitro @CBS4Mark, 6 November 2014
For its beauty the #Starling i think is a very underestimated bird, the glint in its eye is actually my conservatory: image by Martin.M. @som_nature_spy, 27 October 2014
Would love to see a murmuration! MT @naturebygreen: One of my best #starling #murmurations from last year in Somerset: image by Carol Probets @carolprobets, 21 January 2014
When #starling #murmurations suddenly descend into reedbeds, the sound is like the whoosh of an aircraft engine: image via iain green @naturebygreen, 23 January 2014
Thousands of Starlings coming in to roost on Shapwick Heath this evening: image via Mark Pollock @PollockMark, 29 January 2014
RT @The Atlantic The #murmurations of starlings: image via Andrew Russell @amruss1, 1 March 2014
This is a flock of starlings. Amazing!: image via Odhrán Allen @odhranallen, 1 March 2014
Starlings at Westwood Marshes, Suffolk: photo by Neil MP / Green Shoots via The Guardian, 17 October 2014
Tomorrow night I will follow them to their roost and become more intimate. #Murmurations: image via Mick Ryan @vertical_brain, 5 March 2014
One more #Murmurations from tonight in the Peak: image via Mick Ryan @vertical_brain, 5 March 2014
BBC News - Starlings: Mapping and modelling the ballet of the skies: image via Carol @RickysFlower, 27 October 2014
See stunning images of #starlings putting on incredible displays in #Scotland: image via ScotsUSA@scotsusa, 6 November 2014
It's that time of year again! Seen any good#starling #murmurations yet?: image via BTO @_BTO, 7 September 2014
Breathtaking > MT @BTO: #starling murmurations are like liquid helium apparently - who knew?: image via Dominic Mitchell @birdingetc, 29 October 2014
Autumn, near Gretna Green. Dark clouds begin to form in the sky above fields, woodlands and reed beds. But these are no ordinary clouds. They are one of the UK’s most incredible wildlife spectacles: starlings starting their autumnal murmuration: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
Throughout the autumn and winter months, hundreds of thousands of starlings turn the sky black around the UK. The birds come together in huge clouds, wheeling, turning and swooping in unison in formations known as murmurations: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
Starlings join forces for many reasons. Grouping together offers safety in numbers – predators such as peregrine falcons find it hard to target one bird amid a hypnotising flock of thousands: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
Starlings also gather to keep warm at night and to exchange information, such as good feeding areas. They often feed miles away from where they roost – sometimes up to 20 miles away. They return to their roosting site at around the same time each evening: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
Early evening, just before dusk, is the best time to see them across the UK as they perform their aerial dance and choose their communal night-time shelter. They roost in places that are sheltered from harsh weather and predators: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
They tend to roost in woodlands, but reedbeds, cliffs, buildings and industrial structures are also used. During the day, however, they form daytime roosts at exposed places such as treetops, where the birds have good all-round visibility: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
Autumn roosts usually begin to form in November, though this varies from site to site and some can begin as early as September. More and more birds will flock together as the weeks go on, and the number of starlings in a roost can swell to around 100,000 in some places: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
The huge gatherings are at their largest in winter, as they are boosted by thousands of migrant birds visiting from Europe for Britain’s milder Atlantic climate: photo by Owen Humphrey / Press association via The Guardian, 6 November 2014
just part of 40K #murmurations of starlings @RSPBMinsmere on Sat evening -- magical!: image via Simon Waters @SuffolkSi, 26 October 2014