Behaviour that’s just starling

It’s starling ‘murmuration’ time again. 

The birds with the star-like spots on their shiny black feathers gather each evening into huge flocks over woods and reed beds.

They wheel noisily about the sky in great swirling and pulsating patterns, as parties fly in from all sides to join them. Hundreds of thousands, occasionally over a million, individuals participate in these wildlife spectacles.