VERY Nearly SNAP?

       We had a meeting - unsure whether it was a family gathering or a Blipmeet.
       One of the Cumbrian Murmuration sites this year is at "Siddick Pond(s)", so we went; and met up with Derwent Lass, & Mr. Lass for a meal and "a bit crack" in the warm until murmur o'clock.
       It must have been nippy?  Not only was I losing contact with my fingers but the small flocks were gathering and dropping to Roost at "this" size instead of the customary HUGE clouds.
       Further complicated by altitude; we were up looking down from a higher vantage not seeing Reed coloured starlings flying down into the reeds.  Technically NOT Reed coloured - BUT - in the gloaming they might as well have been.