Beautiful. I used to live in Scotland (Sutherland) and I loved watching the birds (and bats) at sunset. It's humbling somehow. I now live in Canada (Alberta) and I watch the Canadian Geese fly away in their uniforms v’s and I feel sad to see them go…
Oh wow. I have never seen anything like this. I would have been frightened. It just feels so much bigger than I am even just watching it online. Thank you for giving me the chance to experience this.
indeed beautiful to watch. If we could reach the state in which we could understand the maths and physics involved, without trying to, then human kind would be in similar harmony. The harmonics of Jan Garbarek's music are always refreshing; he's a great musician (so is his daughter). Linking the images to the music is a personal choice by the creator of the clip. Silence would be better, as the birds don't react to the music, and neither do the musicians react to the dynamics of the flock.
Every year In the late fall this happens where I live. There are a pair of hawks that round them up, & then dive into the flock to kill them. [Just like sardines bieng balled up by tuna] I don't know how the hawks keep track of the fallen. Or maybe it's just sport for them. It's an awsome sight to see though.
murmurations are starlings in flocks coming together early evening around dusk, flying as one to create amazing moving shapes across the early evening sky.
It's very fitting that the film is set to a Medieval Organum (albeit a modernized version), because to me while flocks of birds of any size are magical and mesmerizing, gigantic swarms such as this one evoke religious inspiration.
Not a flock. When in a group they are called a mumuration of starlings. It may look like graceful dancing or magical to us, but in reality they are fighting for their lives. This formation flying is in response to a predator in their midst and if you look closely at any of this type of footage you will likely spot the bird of prey looking for his lunch. Fish in the ocean also use this type of defense. I'm happy to see Fifi48 mentions the falcon!
@BnSuItan The real sound was the roar of the thundering traffic on the motorway, no recordable sound of the birds. I love the music - but then I chose it! ;-)
They are actually not "formation flying" like one would think. they all have the same brains, so their reactions to the wind changes are identical making them look coordinated. They only appear to move as one because they are all thinking the same thing but independently, if that makes sense.
@jimsjazzz I couldn't believe this when I first saw this video. The music blends perfectly with the movement of the starlings. Truly a spiritual experence. I feel wonderful very time I watch it.
The music is by Jan Garbarek AND The Hilliard Ensemble, who are as known in early music as Garbarek is in jazz! Please give credits to all who are due! And I do hope you asked permission to use the music in this video.
@kubikpt Thank you for your interest. I do indeed know who the album is by and it has been a favourite for many years. In fact I was lucky enough to see Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble at Durham Cathedral earlier this year. Utterly glorious and something I will always remember.
I do not use music without permissions though I appreciate your concern.
Please do check the film details where you will see that the album is suitably mentioned.
@Fifi48 :-) All is well. And I'm sorry I sounded a bit harsh, but the Hilliard Ensemble is one of my favorite groups and I know their music has been commercially "stolen" in the past (by the group Enigma, for example). I should have said I also enjoyed your video: I did. It's really an amazing sight, and I can only imagine how the video, though fantastic it is, doesn't give the sensation of having that scene happen while you're there. I envy you :-)
Thank you so much for sharing such beauty of nature's so intelligent performance. It's as if they KNOW they are putting on a show for humans to observe. So artful!!! At times they look like a big shark coming out of the water and at times like a big bird, and that pack even into a heartshape for a couple of seconds. So amazing!!!
This makes me think of the Morrigan, and of my grandmother (of blessed memory) gone two years next month. To me, they are the same. Thank you for this video.
It's like spotting pictures and images in clouds; this is so beautiful. I would love to have been there with you! What an awesome spectacle. I appreciated the stills along with the moving picture. Thank you so much for sharing.
That video is marvelous. Great you had the blessing to see something like that. It made me cry, really, just thinking about how great is our God. I hope some time I can have the chance to see something like that in real. Thanks for sharing the video. Loved it. Blessings. ;)
I saw this same type of spectacle over my house in Michigan today (hence why I'm looking up these vids on Youtube tonight). It had the most profound spiritual effect on me. I can't even explain it or put it into words. After an incredibly difficult week in my personal life, this one moment completely shifted everything. I now all of a sudden have renewed hope about life and the world in general. Witnessing natural phenomena such as this is a gift.
@ScottMasson The spirituality of it affected me deeply too. I still feel it after a couple of years. It was an experience that I could barely put into words. Such beauty.
It's amazing how quick they turn with such co-ordination. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake suggested that morphogenetic fields are the most likely explanation - rather than simply the conventional explanation (which is not really adequate).
See this? Now look at how fractured humanity is. See the difference? Very simple. We just don't work as the natural world works. We work AGAINST it. Nature is exposing us. Exposing our weaknesses. Energy derivation. Humanity is now insanity. We will have a choice. Continue the status quo or go in a new direction. Staus quo equals endless misery. So that kind of narrows it down, doesn't it?
Apparently they all follow one bird - the one that looks the strongest - thats how they never collide. Its the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. I get them in my town but nowhere NEAR this many. I love them so much!
I grew up seeng this as a child in Mexico cause I lived where there was alot of harvest, always early in the mornig or late afternoon, it was amazing! These clouds of birds were at least a cople of miles long dough.
I have seen folds turn within tunnels, I have touched the silken sky as countless artists weave grace before my very eyes. Harmony of winds as if each breath of tiny life is reaching out to me. Wings of divine dunes dance in myriads of haze and I see wonders that hold me speechless. Each one spins a web as if controlled by natures built-in chip. I see grace and I know that I am nothing in comparison. We are nothing because we dance alone, not so the Starling... unity is life, so wonderful.
@finallygot1 It brings me contentment that you are touched by my words, but words are so inadequate for me, what I find fullfilling is to see the love of others in action in this world, now that really makes me happy! And also, of course, the happy smile of my son. God bless you for being there. Peace to you. Paul.
@onlylexus separation is an illusion of the thinking mind. we are all one. like drops making an ocean, no limit between one and the other. I feel you.
@onlylexus: your words are so eloquent.. and true. We are ALL stardust, children of Creation.. it seems that our species is the most "intelligent" and yet, the most irresponsible.. a terrible paradox.
@GreenRad2012 because of this belief that we are separate and so resist the call. No starling or tree or creature of the deep ever stands up and claims "I will do my own thing" and so they live in harmony at one with life and the universe at large.
@hermimi530 I thank you so much for your kindness and your remarks. The wonders of creation and nature are so easily taken for granted by mankind. To see this miracle in the sky's moved me to poetry and somehow brought me to tears and I felt truly humbled by the sheer mystery of it all. Patterns in the clouds like a living Aurora Borealis, now that's another sight that I have to experience! Who or what makes it all happen, why does it affect us so deeply, with so much feeling and emotion?
I wonder how many birds r in there to form this stunning view... As I can't even figure out the form of a single bird. They looked more like bees in a group to me
It blows my mind! The flock looks and moves like a bird in flight...the head is stretched forward, the wings rise and fall, the body is a perfect aerodynamical curve, and a tail for stability. It's as if the DNA that builds each bird, an ultimate flying machine, also creates the larger "bird." It is remarkable and peaceful.
This is gorgeous! I've seen similar flocks outside in my neighborhood or outside my school but nothing of this scale. There were maybe a hundred birds, as compared to the thousands upon thousands here! I am both grateful and jealous.
damn its sick how they can create patterns like this, and when you think about it, its all aranged! Most humans couldn't come up with a complex pattern like they do, its looks so! Fucking cool!
@jewishmansjew Its safety in numbers, the same as with a shoal of fish. In numbers of hundreds of thousands they have a much higher chance of surviving, especially when raptor birds are around.
They certainly don't do it for us. As mere humans our existence is nothing to them, other than our destruction of their habitat and food sources.
@jewishmansjew In addition to Fifi48's accurate comments, this behavior probably also is a means of building social bonds (albeit on a grand scale). They are very intelligent birds and social bonds are vital for their survival.
@jewishmansjew i think you will find that, outside of human social and biological interaction, very few of the natural phenomenon we witness has "entertaining and educating human beings" as its root cause.
I really hope this is rhetorical, because my mind is totally blown that someone who has access to technology as sophisticated as a computer could actually still have a humanocentric view of the universe. :(
Wonderful! I think the coordinated dancing could be explained by using fractals, researchers found that human crowd movements can be described by fractals they called orchids, a few simple rules about how each individual behaves in a crowd that lead to these amazing shapes as an emergent quality. It's like a single organism throwing shapes!
I'm amazed how many people seem to dislike the music. I personally LOVE it. I especially like the Saxophone abd the way it modernizes the vocal genre.
@thegreatstrange As on a previous note - the roaring traffic on the M74 ruined the film and over powered the whoosh of the birds so the music was apt and I love it. If you don't like it play it on mute. Simples
WOW what a awsome video..and even more amazing how 1 falcon controling thousands of birds ..lol...any idea how many birds were there?? and they are racing pigeons right?
this the seen, is the wind like wise in this kind of playfulness. . . mind made visible, much as the holy smokes leaves us see the movemeant of air this how I see the energies of peoples dancing through their lives the interactions spawned by intuits as in a feel for flying . . mindscapes dancing on the horizons of our sanity
Thank you so much for this video! I have a rescued pet starling, and I have developed such an appreciation for this species (which is considered an invasive pest here in the U.S.). Your video was amazing!
thats a messege from god,
look at around 210 looks like a face,.sign of the times to end, birds know and sense things,.
tonto20091 4 days ago
Superb video with well chosen music - well done : )
UFOIST 4 days ago
I love not having roots but hate not having wings.
wingedspartan 1 week ago
this just happened at my house i thought a tree fell and then all the birds showed up and it was the sound of their wings
Janae141233 2 weeks ago
I used to be an ornithologist like you, until I took a sparrow to the knee.
sollibop 2 weeks ago
I saw a flock that stretched for about a mile last year while driving in Western NY. I will remember that sight forever.
frank1340 2 weeks ago
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CookieOTasty 2 weeks ago
I have this album. Great music. I saw something like this once, here in Canada. It was 40 years ago and I've never forgotten it.
mybikemybike 2 weeks ago
Beautiful. I used to live in Scotland (Sutherland) and I loved watching the birds (and bats) at sunset. It's humbling somehow. I now live in Canada (Alberta) and I watch the Canadian Geese fly away in their uniforms v’s and I feel sad to see them go…
Great music choice.
battenburgs 2 weeks ago
Oh wow. I have never seen anything like this. I would have been frightened. It just feels so much bigger than I am even just watching it online. Thank you for giving me the chance to experience this.
armoriendi 3 weeks ago
Those birds should be so Intelligent !
amrelsa2a89 4 weeks ago
Thank you, takes my breath away.
cofty07 4 weeks ago
Bravo! nature, Bravo! What an excellent, ballet.
Iconic58 1 month ago
indeed beautiful to watch. If we could reach the state in which we could understand the maths and physics involved, without trying to, then human kind would be in similar harmony. The harmonics of Jan Garbarek's music are always refreshing; he's a great musician (so is his daughter). Linking the images to the music is a personal choice by the creator of the clip. Silence would be better, as the birds don't react to the music, and neither do the musicians react to the dynamics of the flock.
Trapodactylus 1 month ago
That is one hell of a flightal orgy
ZroDfects 1 month ago
Every year In the late fall this happens where I live. There are a pair of hawks that round them up, & then dive into the flock to kill them. [Just like sardines bieng balled up by tuna] I don't know how the hawks keep track of the fallen. Or maybe it's just sport for them. It's an awsome sight to see though.
broodyart 1 month ago
who's their leader..???....
Jaringan2 1 month ago
Must have been covered in bird shit by the time they finished.
Matchless138 1 month ago
Like some curious liquid in the sky.
Oilisdeathtomany 1 month ago
that was absolutely stunningly beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing
msg2urudy 1 month ago
I want to be there,and I want to be a bird for 1 hour
chrissblack22 1 month ago
murmurations are starlings in flocks coming together early evening around dusk, flying as one to create amazing moving shapes across the early evening sky.
ARTesianWellsMUSIC 1 month ago
It's very fitting that the film is set to a Medieval Organum (albeit a modernized version), because to me while flocks of birds of any size are magical and mesmerizing, gigantic swarms such as this one evoke religious inspiration.
koyunbaba73 1 month ago
For a 10 minute documentary explaining this amazing spectacle, check out my channel.
madridbirder 1 month ago
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fuckin gay ass shit
macr0machine 2 months ago
Only God the creator of the universe can compose such wonders in nature. Stunning! And superb choice of music too.
ARTesianWellsMUSIC 2 months ago
@ARTesianWellsMUSIC A true product of limited immagination
ordostrom 1 month ago
@ordostrom A shameful example of modern atheism: arrogant, ignorant, and mean spirited.
koyunbaba73 1 month ago
@ARTesianWellsMUSIC Or perhaps it's how they communicate
BokehVisuals 1 month ago
Sometimes I see the shape of birds as they fly.
mainemavin 2 months ago
I have no doubt they are having fun while doing this. It must feel like dancing.
mainemavin 2 months ago
ALLAHUAKBAR
lexxxus03 2 months ago
wow, that's amazing.
becksays 2 months ago
At 2:13 the falcon flies upwards.. I think that's it, lol.
allpinkeverythingg 2 months ago
سبحآآن الله
1991kura 2 months ago
Not a flock. When in a group they are called a mumuration of starlings. It may look like graceful dancing or magical to us, but in reality they are fighting for their lives. This formation flying is in response to a predator in their midst and if you look closely at any of this type of footage you will likely spot the bird of prey looking for his lunch. Fish in the ocean also use this type of defense. I'm happy to see Fifi48 mentions the falcon!
freeflyingstar 2 months ago
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Why are the cars passing by as if nothing is happening? I would've stopped instantly too watch one of mother nature's most spectacular displays.
ThomasAleks 2 months ago
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ThomasAleks 2 months ago
What an annoying music
I dont know how's that better then hearing the natural sound for such great moment.
BnSuItan 2 months ago
@BnSuItan The real sound was the roar of the thundering traffic on the motorway, no recordable sound of the birds. I love the music - but then I chose it! ;-)
You could always turn the sound down...
Fifi48 2 months ago 24
Honeybees..migrating..got plenty of this here in The Philippines
danfetalsana 3 weeks ago
سبحان الله البديع
mido3003 2 months ago
think about the shitstorm that hits the ground after that
makapa00001 2 months ago
@makapa00001
Hahahaha you're right
Gam3r20 2 months ago
They are actually not "formation flying" like one would think. they all have the same brains, so their reactions to the wind changes are identical making them look coordinated. They only appear to move as one because they are all thinking the same thing but independently, if that makes sense.
Nature, you beautiful.
123backinyerface 2 months ago
In the occurrence of seeing this in real life i recommend you keep your mouth closed and possibly bring an umbrella.
MiscellaneousDingbat 2 months ago
Music was very fitting to the scene. Like a religious experience.
jimsjazzz 2 months ago 4
@jimsjazzz Thank you. Thats how I felt about it too.
Fifi48 2 months ago
@Fifi48 Thanks for posting this. Ever notice how still shots of murmurations depict images of birds and fish? Ahhh, the beauty of nature.
wrobinson7 4 weeks ago
@jimsjazzz I couldn't believe this when I first saw this video. The music blends perfectly with the movement of the starlings. Truly a spiritual experence. I feel wonderful very time I watch it.
LondonBorn52 2 weeks ago
I've seen quite a few of these in Kansas, USA....but none this long! Those birds just keep going!
kuwinsitall 2 months ago
@kuwinsitall They keep going for a lot longer then this video then when the roost is full the stragglers go off and find somewhere else to roost
frackooo 2 months ago
How do they not smack into each other??
GranddaughterCoyote 2 months ago
The music is by Jan Garbarek AND The Hilliard Ensemble, who are as known in early music as Garbarek is in jazz! Please give credits to all who are due! And I do hope you asked permission to use the music in this video.
kubikpt 2 months ago
@kubikpt Thank you for your interest. I do indeed know who the album is by and it has been a favourite for many years. In fact I was lucky enough to see Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble at Durham Cathedral earlier this year. Utterly glorious and something I will always remember.
I do not use music without permissions though I appreciate your concern.
Please do check the film details where you will see that the album is suitably mentioned.
Fifi48 2 months ago 8
@Fifi48 :-) All is well. And I'm sorry I sounded a bit harsh, but the Hilliard Ensemble is one of my favorite groups and I know their music has been commercially "stolen" in the past (by the group Enigma, for example). I should have said I also enjoyed your video: I did. It's really an amazing sight, and I can only imagine how the video, though fantastic it is, doesn't give the sensation of having that scene happen while you're there. I envy you :-)
kubikpt 2 months ago
Reminds me of our human community, just one community among many in this natural world, and how we each, starlings, are part of the flow
laurenceholden 2 months ago
I'd hate to leave a parked car underneath that flock of birds!
jmbacon01 2 months ago
Thank you so much for sharing such beauty of nature's so intelligent performance. It's as if they KNOW they are putting on a show for humans to observe. So artful!!! At times they look like a big shark coming out of the water and at times like a big bird, and that pack even into a heartshape for a couple of seconds. So amazing!!!
Heartothetube 2 months ago
This makes me think of the Morrigan, and of my grandmother (of blessed memory) gone two years next month. To me, they are the same. Thank you for this video.
gagarazzi77 2 months ago
wow that's all I can say
sjpw62 2 months ago
3:26 It is a biger bird!!!
marcopulitis 2 months ago
It's like spotting pictures and images in clouds; this is so beautiful. I would love to have been there with you! What an awesome spectacle. I appreciated the stills along with the moving picture. Thank you so much for sharing.
kattwin1 2 months ago
That video is marvelous. Great you had the blessing to see something like that. It made me cry, really, just thinking about how great is our God. I hope some time I can have the chance to see something like that in real. Thanks for sharing the video. Loved it. Blessings. ;)
gabrielaperez 2 months ago
Its the monster from lost
crusaderpat 2 months ago
Idc what nobody say thats amazing
matt2ookold 2 months ago
Breath taking!!
yamanito 2 months ago
where would i typically find a swarm? farmers field, lake etc?
nathjroberts 2 months ago
BEAUTIFUL....I wonder how much more pretty it would be if they all started shitting at the same time.
jaganmaster 2 months ago
Amazing.. it looks like one giant organism like it's 1 entity.
aoneone81 2 months ago
song?????
99slike 3 months ago
Just Gorgeous.
monkeylimbs 3 months ago
I saw this same type of spectacle over my house in Michigan today (hence why I'm looking up these vids on Youtube tonight). It had the most profound spiritual effect on me. I can't even explain it or put it into words. After an incredibly difficult week in my personal life, this one moment completely shifted everything. I now all of a sudden have renewed hope about life and the world in general. Witnessing natural phenomena such as this is a gift.
ScottMasson 4 months ago 9
@ScottMasson The spirituality of it affected me deeply too. I still feel it after a couple of years. It was an experience that I could barely put into words. Such beauty.
Fifi48 2 months ago
our jetstreams are gorgeous aren't they? The birds ride the Jets stream so gracefully
apolllos7 4 months ago
telepathy
symnzXx 4 months ago
game of order and chaos
ntLonky 4 months ago
Do people that live around there like stay indoors when this happens? Do they like attack cars and stuff?
504Anon 4 months ago
@504Anon They're small birds gathering to roost. They don't attack anything!
Fifi48 4 months ago 13
@Fifi48 do you know why they get together in such brilliant flocks
vivinha1989 3 months ago
@Fifi48: wow, Zoology 101.. they are just doing their thing. I don't see why that's so hard to grasp.
GreenRad2012 2 months ago
@Fifi48 starlings are pretty agressive arent they?
EyesFat 2 months ago
@EyesFat -- Yes, in that sense they resemble creationist christians.
ribogok 1 month ago
@504Anon you need to get out more.
alex7071 2 months ago
Oh, this is absolutely beautiful. Thank you!
lavendertuesday 4 months ago
Sort of a lovely sky whale, breaching and diving. :) Perfect music to accompany the wonder!
WhiteTiger333 4 months ago
there has to be some type of quantum entanglement phenomenon in their collective brains to be able to accomplish this. Thats amazing!
Kuartus 5 months ago
Breathtaking...Beats the flock of twenty that feed in my Norwich city garden, where do my birds roost??
BIRDSRBABS 6 months ago
one of God's most beautiful creations
tcnoboi87 6 months ago 2
@tcnoboi87 One of the most beautiful results of evolution by natural selection.
subjectruin 4 months ago
This reminds me of a screensaver.
MissMelancholy1 6 months ago
a starlin flock that would scare me
beautifulmofo 6 months ago
@beautifulmofo Why? Its beautiful?
Fifi48 4 months ago 11
@beautifulmofo WTF?
Andyboi45 2 months ago
that is some pretty hardcore networked collaboration
heckubiss1 6 months ago
It's amazing how quick they turn with such co-ordination. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake suggested that morphogenetic fields are the most likely explanation - rather than simply the conventional explanation (which is not really adequate).
PersianPaladin 7 months ago
its cool, if one takes a dump, they do it all at the same time! its a real shit storm, believe me!!!!!
periesicsd 8 months ago
That would suck if someone was under the flock and they all pooped at once.
sabrina1996 8 months ago
More spectacular and bigger starling flocks can be seen on Spiller's new videoclip.... search for "Spiller Pigeonman's Revenge"!
batongo 8 months ago
Magic, beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Australia. Bella
bellamoonnature 8 months ago
and why they do this ? what is purpose ? because,as you know they are animals, they do everythig for a purpose
MrInsanolun 9 months ago
and they are not crashing to each other, i think there is no explanation about this so far? isn't it
MrInsanolun 9 months ago
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MrInsanolun 9 months ago
Wow!
Absolutely Onedrous!
Thank you so much for sharing such beauty! :)
gaiasoundandvision 10 months ago
See this? Now look at how fractured humanity is. See the difference? Very simple. We just don't work as the natural world works. We work AGAINST it. Nature is exposing us. Exposing our weaknesses. Energy derivation. Humanity is now insanity. We will have a choice. Continue the status quo or go in a new direction. Staus quo equals endless misery. So that kind of narrows it down, doesn't it?
Kostly 10 months ago
This is beautiful, thanks for posting it
kidcalabria 10 months ago
Its swine flu
ThETHirDHoOk3r 10 months ago
Great video. This is so amazing to watch and in person, I am sure, breath-taking. The beauty of art in nature. Thank you for sharing.
akashica 11 months ago
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hallo, this is amazing. thank you so much.
is it possible to see it with its natural sound as well? (... please?)
thanx anyway,
Tania
tsiritata 11 months ago
hi, this is amazing, thank you so much. is ti possible to see it with its natural sound as well? (...please?)
thank you,
Tania
tsiritata 11 months ago
Apparently they all follow one bird - the one that looks the strongest - thats how they never collide. Its the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. I get them in my town but nowhere NEAR this many. I love them so much!
bflatgirl 11 months ago
wow!! LIKE FISH in the ocean. amazing.
kahaki 11 months ago
wouldent wanna be underneath all of them...
Tunahamster 11 months ago
Magnifique! Thank you !
cacoune 11 months ago
I grew up seeng this as a child in Mexico cause I lived where there was alot of harvest, always early in the mornig or late afternoon, it was amazing! These clouds of birds were at least a cople of miles long dough.
antoniogalvarez 1 year ago
i saw a smaller scale of this when my friend and i were driving home from school
tzDub92 1 year ago
I have seen folds turn within tunnels, I have touched the silken sky as countless artists weave grace before my very eyes. Harmony of winds as if each breath of tiny life is reaching out to me. Wings of divine dunes dance in myriads of haze and I see wonders that hold me speechless. Each one spins a web as if controlled by natures built-in chip. I see grace and I know that I am nothing in comparison. We are nothing because we dance alone, not so the Starling... unity is life, so wonderful.
onlylexus 1 year ago 20
@onlylexus I am truly touched by these words
finallygot1 10 months ago
@finallygot1 It brings me contentment that you are touched by my words, but words are so inadequate for me, what I find fullfilling is to see the love of others in action in this world, now that really makes me happy! And also, of course, the happy smile of my son. God bless you for being there. Peace to you. Paul.
onlylexus 10 months ago
@onlylexus separation is an illusion of the thinking mind. we are all one. like drops making an ocean, no limit between one and the other. I feel you.
nahnuhhuh 9 months ago
@onlylexus how wonderful
blackspringrose 5 months ago
@onlylexus: your words are so eloquent.. and true. We are ALL stardust, children of Creation.. it seems that our species is the most "intelligent" and yet, the most irresponsible.. a terrible paradox.
GreenRad2012 2 months ago
@GreenRad2012 because of this belief that we are separate and so resist the call. No starling or tree or creature of the deep ever stands up and claims "I will do my own thing" and so they live in harmony at one with life and the universe at large.
claudelebel55 2 months ago
@onlylexus Ah well said Well said!
comixmcj 2 months ago
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onlylexus 2 months ago
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onlylexus 2 months ago
@onlylexus Beautifully written!
hermimi530 2 months ago
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@hermimi530 I thank you so much for your kindness and your remarks. The wonders of creation and nature are so easily taken for granted by mankind. To see this miracle in the sky's moved me to poetry and somehow brought me to tears and I felt truly humbled by the sheer mystery of it all. Patterns in the clouds like a living Aurora Borealis, now that's another sight that I have to experience! Who or what makes it all happen, why does it affect us so deeply, with so much feeling and emotion?
onlylexus 2 months ago
pretty cool, imagine shooting a shot gun into there haha jk, dont get offended animal lovers.
catarino93 1 year ago
stunning, and beautiful music, what music is that?
TheDarmardar 1 year ago
@TheDarmardar It says who the music is under the film... Sanctus by Jan Garbarek.
Fifi48 1 year ago
I wonder how many birds r in there to form this stunning view... As I can't even figure out the form of a single bird. They looked more like bees in a group to me
systom111 1 year ago
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systom111 1 year ago
i always love watching large flocks of birds. it's so beautiful they way they move...so graceful, magical...it's art.
AnotherDay2010 1 year ago
It blows my mind! The flock looks and moves like a bird in flight...the head is stretched forward, the wings rise and fall, the body is a perfect aerodynamical curve, and a tail for stability. It's as if the DNA that builds each bird, an ultimate flying machine, also creates the larger "bird." It is remarkable and peaceful.
kyfriedmomma 1 year ago
This is just pure wonderful! Amazing. Thank you so much for posting this. I've never seen anything like it.
ameroux 1 year ago
This is gorgeous! I've seen similar flocks outside in my neighborhood or outside my school but nothing of this scale. There were maybe a hundred birds, as compared to the thousands upon thousands here! I am both grateful and jealous.
MetaphysicsinMotion 1 year ago
damn its sick how they can create patterns like this, and when you think about it, its all aranged! Most humans couldn't come up with a complex pattern like they do, its looks so! Fucking cool!
MortenBoHansen 1 year ago
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MortenBoHansen 1 year ago
flock of birds collide! beautiful
cooljohnny1000 1 year ago
(IF, you don't like the music, then use the mute!) I love the video. I love the music. I love, love.....
crlwllns 1 year ago
god made these birds so to show us how wonderful this world is........
cutyvill 1 year ago
god made these birds so to show us how wonderful this world is........
cutyvill 1 year ago
Interesting choice of music
sjlove2bird 1 year ago
its a million times better than any fireworks display ever :)
jewishmansjew 1 year ago
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crlwllns 1 year ago
but why do they do this? they do this for us to see?
jewishmansjew 1 year ago
@jewishmansjew Its safety in numbers, the same as with a shoal of fish. In numbers of hundreds of thousands they have a much higher chance of surviving, especially when raptor birds are around.
They certainly don't do it for us. As mere humans our existence is nothing to them, other than our destruction of their habitat and food sources.
Fifi48 1 year ago 16
@Fifi48 served it u just dissed your own species lol
QUINNBELL888 1 year ago
@jewishmansjew In addition to Fifi48's accurate comments, this behavior probably also is a means of building social bonds (albeit on a grand scale). They are very intelligent birds and social bonds are vital for their survival.
sjlove2bird 1 year ago
@jewishmansjew i think you will find that, outside of human social and biological interaction, very few of the natural phenomenon we witness has "entertaining and educating human beings" as its root cause.
I really hope this is rhetorical, because my mind is totally blown that someone who has access to technology as sophisticated as a computer could actually still have a humanocentric view of the universe. :(
tezcatbus 7 months ago
at 3:20 it looks like a whale if u look closly
dsr1841 1 year ago
This is like fractal geometry. Benoît Mandelbrot would approve of this vid :)
Lagolop 1 year ago
Astonishing film! Thank you so much!
Gandalfnog1 1 year ago
wonderful!
lamatavai 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing such an amazing video. The music is "heavenly" as it matches the ebb and flow of the gathering starlings.
joonox25 1 year ago
Wonderful! I think the coordinated dancing could be explained by using fractals, researchers found that human crowd movements can be described by fractals they called orchids, a few simple rules about how each individual behaves in a crowd that lead to these amazing shapes as an emergent quality. It's like a single organism throwing shapes!
astrophonix 1 year ago
I'm amazed how many people seem to dislike the music. I personally LOVE it. I especially like the Saxophone abd the way it modernizes the vocal genre.
me2525 1 year ago
like sine waves, I'm going to assume they use electro-gravitational forces to maneuver, there is an order in that teeming mass
twasbrillig33 1 year ago
I really enjoyed the music. :) What a powerful experience you've created by putting the two together.
Who is the music by?
gnollip 1 year ago
beautiful film, but why oh why the music??? it spoils the whole thing...PLEASE re-post without!!!
thegreatstrange 1 year ago
@thegreatstrange As on a previous note - the roaring traffic on the M74 ruined the film and over powered the whoosh of the birds so the music was apt and I love it. If you don't like it play it on mute. Simples
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Fifi48 1 year ago
Fantastic video. I'm very jealous!
SimonByford 1 year ago
WHY ARE THERE NO HEAD ON CRASHES?!?!??!?!
m14lover1 1 year ago
simply stunning, thank you for posting :0)
1961aseret 1 year ago
You have to wonder where the leader is and what are they doing just flying around in circles like this.
aufshnitt 1 year ago
This is a brilliant sight for sure, I have seen this while driving along the road from dumfries to the m74/m6, thanks for posting
2wheelsteve 1 year ago
something ill have to see with my own eyes one day
adalstan 1 year ago
WOW,....totally MESMERIZED by the beauty of these Starlings,....thumbs up to ya Fifi48 and thankin' my buddy Stewart for the AWESOME share! = )
qualqui 1 year ago
This brought me to tears. Beautiful.
mountainboi2 1 year ago
WOW what a awsome video..and even more amazing how 1 falcon controling thousands of birds ..lol...any idea how many birds were there?? and they are racing pigeons right?
jazzyfl1 1 year ago
beautiful a nature dance ñ_ñ
jardok01 1 year ago
It`s absolutely magic!!!!
SimpleUser11 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing....!!!
kangjagir 1 year ago
this the seen, is the wind like wise in this kind of playfulness. . . mind made visible, much as the holy smokes leaves us see the movemeant of air this how I see the energies of peoples dancing through their lives the interactions spawned by intuits as in a feel for flying . . mindscapes dancing on the horizons of our sanity
HamOnCan 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this video! I have a rescued pet starling, and I have developed such an appreciation for this species (which is considered an invasive pest here in the U.S.). Your video was amazing!
HayleyMch 1 year ago
Thank you.
MrOoppoddoo 1 year ago
I am mesmerized! Thank you!
TheJessica2525 1 year ago
I want to be in such pure harmony with the world as that one day.
tommykabby 1 year ago
poetry wise: See Pam Ayres (sp?)
She wrote:
"I'm a starling, me darling ,
Me and the boys..."
i have a feeling that you are not after this kind of poetry.
The poem make the bird seem much less awesome than how I remember it and how this video shows it.
I remember seeing this on the Somerset levels when I was a child.
I took it for granted then and have spent the rest of my life trying to revisit it.
thatstrueyousay 1 year ago
WOW that's amazing ^.^
Asahel1019 1 year ago