A Murmuration of Starlings

[alfreda89]

This is a fantastic short video of a pulsing ribbon of starlings, the reward for two women out paddling a canoe on a blustery day. It's given me an idea for a scene in a novel, which makes it a two-fer. The only thing I've ever seen that is even close to this was watching over a million bats leave at sundown from under the Congress Street bridge.

Gluten-free girl turned me on to this one!

Murmuration by Sophie Windsor Clive

Comments

[originalkitsune.livejournal.com]

LOL! I just tumblr-ed this.

I could only think of 2 things while watching.
--oh the amounting of bird poo.
--they're not wearing life jackets.

:)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

You're right on both accounts. Some people who are on water a lot don't. They either never feel threatened, or figure they will die in the cold water anyway, and a life jacket prolongs the death.

But that may be the storyteller working overtime, there.