Thursday 15 November 2007

Amazing starlings

At the moment thousands of starlings are providing a breathtaking spectacle each afternoon at dusk, doing circuits of the farm in tight-knit but very fluid flocks. Luckily they don't roost on our patch (they're very noisy when they finally all descend into some poor tree) but for half an hour they perform unbelievable aerial acrobatics, like a big big shoal of fish in the air.