Watchtree murmurations

A real spectacle at Watchtree nature reserve tonight - hundreds of starlings twisting and turning, merging and swirling in their murmuration. I arrived at 4 and left at 5:15 ....a lovely sunset but unfortunately the sun went behind cloud before it would have dipped below the horizon. Lovely clatterings and squeakings as I walked back past the roosting starlings on the way back to the car.

Piling in to roost.