starling murmurations
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Nature Notes
An Apparition: Starlings & the Peregrine. On a bright afternoon, we go birding in the Land Rover, not anticipating much. The last embers of redwing and fieldfare flocks glow – and babble like a stream through the trees. Near the dewpond, it becomes apparent there is a huge flock of birds, just over the ridge […]
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Nature Notes
On Speen Moor, Part II: The Library and the Starlings. An hour before sunset, we walk to Speen Moors, stopping at the Ladywell. The ancient stone predates the Romans and covets a sacred spring. The path to it is damp and full of a chill, green, mysterious brightness the colour of duckweed and moss. Wild […]
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Nature Notes
On Speen Moors, Part I Just past sunset, on the trail of a locally made You Tube film tweeted 2 days earlier, I park the car somewhat irresponsibly off the A4. And walk down a footpath familiar to me 20 years ago, shouldering my binoculars. I am wrong footed, immediately. There are lights moving and […]