Some may have seen this, but for anyone who hasn't, this is a must see and for all other wildlife photographers an eat your heart out moment...
Feb. 23, 2025
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Amazing luck and timing.
I remember as a child seeing these huge groups of starlings down in Portsmouth. I believe these birds have become rarer.
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Absolutely sensational.
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As a kid I remember them too although never any flocks quite that size. They were introduced by the British and it was a colder climate where I grew up - I see none here in a warmer climate but they may never have established here.
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Bryan,
Thank you.
You have succeeded.
My photographic heart has been eaten.
I live in a migratory fly zone. Twice each year the starlings fly north in the spring and south in the fall following the harvest as the farmers harvest their grain.
They flock by the hundreds of thousands - so many that they darken and the sun, and you have to shout to be heard.
I once did a little video of the tail end of one of these, if you're interested.
Steve Thomas