Unexpected Encounter

Walking the dogs to see yet another starling murmuration I suddenly saw him hiding in the hedge. It was getting late, the light was going and on hearing us he came tentatively out just for a second, couldn't miss hearing the camera I wouldn't have thought and then bolted like lightening back through into the copse. 

The starlings grouped in small numbers and danced sporadically but the light was a deep grey blue, not really murmuration photography light.