Murmuration of Starlings

After my brother and I had raked up four builders sacks full of leaves and delivered them to the waste site in Stowmarket this morning, and I still have the same again to do, I took the afternoon off and went to Lackford Lakes, a Suffolk Wildlife Trust Reserve near Bury St Edmunds. I was hoping to see the Kingfishers but the lakes that they frequent were frozen over, they had been sighted on the reserve but I didn't see them. As I arrived, a volunteer at the site told me that the starlings would be gathering around 3.30 for their nightly roost, so after a lovely walk in the frosty air I went back to where he said would be a good place to see them.
They didn't disappoint and kept me and a dozen other people enthralled for a good twenty minutes dipping and diving with more and more joining in. I was amazed when part of the group just dropped out of the sky to roost in the trees and this was repeated until the all the birds are down.
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