I have always ben fascinated by flight, and the movement of birds in general. There’s something rather otherworldly about it (to me) for some reason.
One of the things I would truly love to see in this life is a huge murmuration of starlings. I have seen smaller ‘swarms’ of them once or twice, but nothing even close to this:
I don’t actually know if I’d be overwhelmed by being present for something of this scale – perhaps it would be a little terrifying, actually (cue the Hitchcock moment!) … but I’d love to see it in person nonetheless.
Murmurations, indeed.
For more of this, go to Jan via IJken’s website (he’s got some really amazing work!)
Gorgeous! In Brighton we saw this every year over the old West Pier, amazing at sunset – there’s a vid here of some..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N71hx0-rdU Lovely to “read” you again!
and lovely to ‘read’ you too! Amazing video – thanks!
Beautiful. And if you watch closely enough you can actually see designs being done by the birds’ flight – such as a giant bird at one point. Almost like looking at clouds and seeing different items – except this one is in a beautiful ballet of flight. Thanks for sharing.
Sydney, if you ever come to Vancouver, we’ll have to go to the Still Creek crow roost. Not as ballet-like as the starlings, more like a raucous black tide — but I always find it very uplifting.
Oh that would be AMAZING! I would love to see it, and shoot some video!
The sound is a bit scary yet brilliant
Yes it is isn’t it? Quite otherworldly …