Starling Invasion

A foggy , rainy start but this soon cleared leaving a brighter milder day with good periods of sunshine.
Starlings stole the headlines in the village today with large feeding parties moving around. Some of the flocks were made up of c100 birds lining up noisily on rooftops before swooping down into the gardens that were providing food. The winter Starling flocks usually build up around the village till late February before dispersing to other areas leaving us with our own resident birds.
Unusually this year we have 2 roosting in the Ivy at the back of the house where up to 25 House Sparrows roost throughout the year and breed in two nests every spring.
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