This is just part of one of the larger murmurations of Starlings (around 20,000 birds) that showed up today to perform one of Nature’s most spectacular aerial displays of mass coordinated flying prowess that you could hope to witness anywhere. In fact, there were at least five times as many birds altogether (it can be double that), but my wife and I had to wait initially for the pouring rain to ease off a bit because the birds were preferring to head for the ground in a nearby field, where they stood, more or less motionless, just staring at each other and making very little sound….which is incredibly uncharacteristic for Starlings during these predominantly autumnal occasions. However, as soon as the rain had pretty much stopped, up they went again to do their thing with a bit more enthusiasm this time, before ultimately returning to earth in a Starling cacophony of high volume chattering and excited shrieks! Remember Remember….