Starling sky dance

gretna green in scotland. estimated nearlty a million starlings. happening every evening through winter. this was filmed 2nd march 2008. go and see them before they finish. message me for directions if you need to find their roost.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• starlings
• birds
• gretna
• green
• roosting

[liuaimi]

There's a "bird" formation at 1:07 in your video. Yahoo featured different video of starlings that also formed a bird head image. Mean anything?

[wingbatknickers]

Hi. I am more inclined to think that it's an act of randomness but it's cool to see such formations. You can pick out all kinds of shapes and patterns I guess.

[dylanwinter1]

very good - you should go back and shoot it again. Can you get closer - and use a tripod - that would be wonderful to see. Its a really big flock

[wingbatknickers]

I will be going back as soon as the weather picks up again up here. It is pretty bleak and blustery at the mo. unfortnatley this was taken on a phone but I can get to another great vantage point which I discovered the other day.

Just realised how silly I sound on this vid.

Thanks again and here's to the humble starling (raises glass).

[ogp12]

Rupert Sheldrake has a theory that the birds are following a sort of fileds, much like electromagnetic fields, but he refers to them as morphogenetic fields :)

[VincesVinyl]

I used to live right underneath this great event and watched it every day. A house called Douglas Steading. It happens in the same place, exactly, every evening, year in years out. I only live 10 miles away now and was there about a week ago and there they were, thanks for posting.

[mandyt1966]

That is amazing !!

[01inChrististruelife]

Awesome.

[valentino0179]

OOOHHHH MY GOD !!

This is fantastic. too bad the quality isn´t too good. thanks for uploading

[Skydancer365]

OMG! This is SOOO cool! I might have to go to Scotland some day just to see this (if it's still around).

A few years ago, I encountered a swarm of a few hundred barn swallows & just had an urge to walk into the middle of them. It was an exhilarating experience! I know they can be aggressive if threatened (or especially if their nests are threatened) but I just had to do it. They swarmed around me for a few minutes before I lost my nerve and left. I would never try it with THIS many tho!