NFR - Massive murmuration

[H4usuallysitting]

Of Starlings over Eastbourne Pier this late afternoon... absolutely spectacular

[Rupert]

Photographic evidence or I won't believe it.

[H4usuallysitting]

I wouldn't have a clue how to do that....but here's an old picture from The Sussex Express:-

https://share.google/aHP8UJ9f7KvzPMYDL

The starlings are here every night - I'm going to start selling tickets

[Grassy Noel]

I wouldn't have a clue how to do that....but here's an old picture from The Sussex Express:-

https://share.google/aHP8UJ9f7KvzPMYDL

The starlings are here every night - I'm going to start selling tickets

Not worth it Mr H.
I have been following it with starlink.

[ron]

That brings  back a memory of seeing  an incredible murmuration there long ago. We bought a glass ornament of a bird that day from the shop on the pier which is still in our cabinet. I just read that the proprietor and maker of the glassware retired a couple of years back after fifty odd years of making.

[H4usuallysitting]

That brings  back a memory of seeing  an incredible murmuration there long ago. We bought a glass ornament of a bird that day from the shop on the pier which is still in our cabinet. I just read that the proprietor and maker of the glassware retired a couple of years back after fifty odd years of making.

He retired last year

[epsomraver]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

[gang]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

How do the birds discriminate?

[epsomraver]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

How do the birds discriminate?

they don't I do when I decide where to point my gun all joking aside its like the birds film around here with rows of them perched on the telephone lines just waiting to swoop and eat all the food

[john dempsey]

Of course they could of been the
Ravens leaving the tower of london.
 we are doomed i tell you doomed.

[Dodgin]

Don't see sparrows about now

[H4usuallysitting]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

I couldn't eat a whole one.... they're a very pretty bird

[H4usuallysitting]

Don't see sparrows about now

Plenty down here... I'm planting a load of holly trees this year....just for the small birds

[Barrett487]

Of Starlings over Eastbourne Pier this late afternoon... absolutely spectacular

I hope you'll go back this coming weekend, to count them for the RSPB Bird-watch weekend ?   

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?mac=bwmith0230&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=bgbw-2026&utm_content=ppc&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23350271479&gbraid=0AAAAADLmW3hZx6MgzoAif1LEU1mq-etNo&gclid=CjwKCAiAybfLBhAjEiwAI0mBBvs0P9birkjuBWM9ZD-ypR5cJHi4J6ScpbUklV6fm1jB43bO9xtPSBoC08MQAvD_BwE

[H4usuallysitting]

Of Starlings over Eastbourne Pier this late afternoon... absolutely spectacular

I hope you'll go back this coming weekend, to count them for the RSPB Bird-watch weekend ?   

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?mac=bwmith0230&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=bgbw-2026&utm_content=ppc&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23350271479&gbraid=0AAAAADLmW3hZx6MgzoAif1LEU1mq-etNo&gclid=CjwKCAiAybfLBhAjEiwAI0mBBvs0P9birkjuBWM9ZD-ypR5cJHi4J6ScpbUklV6fm1jB43bO9xtPSBoC08MQAvD_BwE

I can only count my finger's & toes...so no more than 23

[leafe hill white]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

Thanks for reminding me, I must go out and clean the crap off my 2 kayak covers the damn things sit on the tv aerial and pooh all over the place. On the plus side they cant get into the Starling proof bird feed cage to steal the Robin and Great Tit`s food.

[Rightwhite]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

Thanks for reminding me, I must go out and clean the crap off my 2 kayak covers the damn things sit on the tv aerial and pooh all over the place. On the plus side they cant get into the Starling proof bird feed cage to steal the Robin and Great Tit`s food.

My kids stole all the great Tits food. Tits have never been the same since.

[bobbo]

Don't see sparrows about now

yeah not so much they do appear in my garden along with robins and blue tits . Keep it clean lads.

[Woolly Mammoth]

bloody horrible birds, come down in large numbers steal all the other birds food and crap everywhere, we have feeders everywhere for birds but not starlings, ugliest bird in creation

I beg to differ, back in the early sixties a mate of mine asked me to do him a favour.
He wanted to take this girl he fancied out, but as she had a mate who was visiting her, he could only take her out if he mate came along.
So he asked me if I wouldn't mind making a foursome.l asked him is she is  a looker and not a plain  Jane.
He swore I would like her.
He wanted to take her up West to Leicester Square.
Anyway I met them outside Tooting Bec underground station.
When I saw this bird, I almost turned and ran away.
She was definitely the ugliest bird I have ever seen poor girl, I actually felt more sorry for her than I did for me. I was well over 6 ft and she was 4ft and a cigarette paper, it didn't make sense, and you should have seen the size of her beak, she would have pecked me to death.
Anyway we ended up going in a cinema so we could sit in the dark so nobody could see me with her.
I felt a bit guilty but she was so ugly she could haunt a house.
My first and last blind date.
I never forgave him for it.

[blingo]

A flocking nightmare all round.