Hello everyone, had a great day at LM on Monday, albeit very dull weatherwise. It had started to go dark & I was on my way to catch the train home when this happened...
https://vimeo.com/252385431
Regards, AnnaB
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Lots of wildlife showing, but low light conditions made for poor photography (that's my story anyway).
In reply to Anna B:
Great to have seen/filmed the murmuration.
A good day for the fishermen by the looks of it. Any idea what the crow caught?
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In reply to Nigel O:
Hello Nige, at first I thought it was bread but think instead someone had been throwing suet pellets out of the hide window; something white at any rate.
I never thought of that. Well captured anyway.
Thanks Nige :)
Wonderful, Anna! Have you counted the Starlings?!
Kind regards, Ann
In reply to Gardenbirder:
Haha, Ann I tried but I lost count at 50 thousand!
Ha, ha, yourself, Anna! Only 50,000--Is that all?!!! I always wonder how large flocks are actually counted (or is it always an estimate?!) I've yet to see a large murmuration in person although I recall a lovely view on the telly some years ago. I think it was on a Bill Oddie series. The best I've seen here in land-locked Surrey was a mini murmuration of about 50 birds a year or two ago (no, we didn't count them!).
I've often wondered how they arrive at the numbersmyself, Ann. We used to have thousands of Starlings roosting in my home town (coastal) but the powers that be got rid of them because of complaints about them making a mess of the pavements. I was too young to pay any attention to how or why it happened at the time, but it makes me very sad to think about it now.
That is a sad story, Anna. At least I have not heard of Starlings being culled recently in Britain so that is something although they are probably still killed along with other birds in southern Europe. If only people would stop persecuting birds of prey, well, all birds actually!