OVER the past few days I have seen the most amazing and wondrous sight.
In the skies over the Oasis and North Star College in the twilight between 5.30pm and 6pm there have been thousands of starlings swooping, wheeling and diving in a vast cloud, rather like a swarm of bees, or a shoal of fish.
You can hear the rush of wings and the odd cry, but mainly it's a silent movement with birds joining in the aerial display, or peeling off in Red Arrows formation.
It is hypnotic to watch them in an endless variety of moving clouds. It is incredible that the birds do not collide with each other, as they merge, break away, and re-form at speed.
At last abruptly they drop into the fir trees and disappear.
I saw a similar display a few years ago over Ferndale Road, but not on this scale.
Can anyone explain this behaviour?
VAL HEMMENS
"Lynvale"
The Crescent
Common Platt
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