I live only a couple of miles from Rocester in Staffordshire, so imagine my surprise when the BBC Midlands Today News broadcast a live report from there about the Starling Murmuration last night.
So as the weather was great today (and I’ve just about recovered from Man Flu that has kept my down all week!) I went up at dusk to see what I could capture.
From some of the photos and videos I’ve seen, the numbers tonight seemed a little down on recent days, however, they still put on a good show.
Nobody really knows why Starlings perform these masterpiece flight shows but it is believed that “strength in numbers” is part of the game. I did see some Sparrow Hawks flying around at the same time.
By the time they started to show in big numbers the light had faded quite a bit and cloud had covered the horizon so no great sunset colours.
I didn’t manage to get many still shots as most of the action was taking place over houses and it was getting too dark to photograph, I switched to a longer lens to try and get inside the Murmuration and got some silhouette shots. I did set up my D7100 to film at the same time (video below).
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Back last year, I setup a Bushnell NatureView MAX HD camera to capture footage of the 