Murmuration

It was a fantastic display by the Starlings this evening, but none of my pictures came out as well as I'd hoped. The action was right over our heads, adding a whoosh and a dizzying sense movement to the experience and everywhere we looked there was another fluid shape that emerged from nowhere and then just as quickly dissolved back into a fluttering mass of wings. As a result, I was chasing around with the camera, pointing in every direction and firing away. This is probably why most of the shots had a blurred landscape.

Although not in a classic formation, I thought this shot gave some sense of the numbers and proximity of the birds. And what it must be like to live in that house.

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