Taken a few minutes after yesterday's photo at Shapwick Heath Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels. This is my second landscape for the challenge by Joyce - @thistle. Night falls, starlings descend, and ice creeps over the surface of the water! The roosting site was some distance away again, but the impact of the sunset colours being blotted out by hundreds of thousands of birds was quite eerie. And all the while I could almost see the gradual spread of the ice over the water as the temperature plummetted....brrrrr!
This is amazing. I can almost hear those starlings. I don't see them very ofteninour garden and it is a long time since I've seen them in this sort of quantity. Love that pinkish colour reflected on the water. Fav.
@woofandweft1 we get starlings in the garden but I think they are all the "residents" that are here all year. These massive flocks that roost in the reed beds of the Somerset Levels are migrants from places like Russia.
