Swooping, soaring, murmurating: why the skies are full of st

Swooping, soaring, murmurating: why the skies are full of starlings
Robyn Vinter
© Provided by The Guardian
Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters
Driving through Ripon, North Yorkshire, last week, Hayley Blaymires was surprised to see thousands of birds swoop in spectacular formations across the sky.
She had heard people talking about starling murmurations, which this year have been happening unusually close to the centre of Ripon, but this was the first time she was seeing them for herself.
Blaymires was so impressed that the next evening she took her two children, aged three and five, to see them too.
“It was mesmerising,” she said. “The kids thought it was fantastic and we wound the windows down so they could hear them cheep as they were coming over. More birds joined and it got bigger as we were watching it, making nice swirling patterns and changing direction. There were lots of ‘wow’s.”

Related Keywords

North Yorkshire , United Kingdom , Brighton , Brighton And Hove , Scottish Highlands , Highland , Russia , Scotland , British , Paul Stancliffe , Susan Walker Getty , Martin Fowlie , Hayley Blaymires , British Trust For Ornithology , Guardian Photograph , British Trust , Getty Images , Brighton Pier , Gretna Green , Ham Wall , வடக்கு யார்க்ஷயர் , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , பிரகாசமான , பிரகாசமான மற்றும் ஹோவ் , ஸ்காட்டிஷ் மலைப்பகுதி , ஹைலேண்ட் , ரஷ்யா , ஸ்காட்லாந்து , பிரிட்டிஷ் , சூசன் வாக்கர் கெட்டி , மார்டின் போவிலிிஏ , பிரிட்டிஷ் நம்பிக்கை க்கு ஆர்‌நிதாலஜீ , பாதுகாவலர் புகைப்படம் , பிரிட்டிஷ் நம்பிக்கை , கெட்டி படங்கள் , பிரகாசமான கப்பல் , க்ரெட்ந பச்சை , ஹாம் சுவர் ,