Starling Murmuration at Middleton Moor, Derbyshire

[@dynnamaen9930]

I have seen smaller groups of starlings in murmuration here in the U.S. I didn't hear the movement of the birds but your video is spectacular being able to hear these thousands of birds. Thank you so much for your videos. ❤❤

[@elainehampson9847]

They are one consciousnesses and they love each other. They don’t compete. Absolutely sublime in their Being. I can watch them for hours and never grow weary of their dance. Thank you so much.

[@janetleclaire6763]

It’s so mesmerizing and peaceful. Watching Starling murmuration will put me to sleep.

[@anwyn9846]

They sound like the ocean. ❤️

[@LesPowrieZA]

Absolutely wonderful. The thoughts going through my mind as I watched are that tens or hundreds of thousands of birds are flowing together and I didn't see any collisions and birds falling out of the sky. That reminds me of Zion where diverse people unite and unity is strength. If we put ourselves together and not have some exalting themselves above others, we will be able to achieve truly remarkable things. Our blood, comprising millions of cells, flows through our veins where no cell waits in uncertainty at a junction waiting for others to make a gap - they just merge together without injurious collisions. None goes against the stream. They work together.

[@gregmacdonald2784]

Amazing footage, thank you for posting this and also leaving the natural sounds with no background music like so many other uploaders

[@zikiemo]

yes !!

[@motherlandbot6837]

No. Starlings don't sing when flying, yet you hear the song of an individual Starling at the beginning of the video. Starlings in a murmuration utter chattering contact calls en masse at intervals, particularly when maneuvering, and these calls from thousands of birds sound very different from the softer roosting calls heard in most of the video. These sounds were dubbed in. The constand wind sounds were not produced by the wings of thousands of Starlings in flight; while their flight is not silent, their calls in flight and at their perches are far more audible. As they start to settle down, roosting Starlings utter loud threat/anger calls as they bicker over roosting perch spaces. These gradually subside, but Starlings at roosts still call at intervals after nightfall, particularly when roosting under artifical light heat sources.

[@HelenaMikas]

Puts the Red Arrows in the shade .Starlings never cease to amaze me .Sensational footage

[@bambihernandez4387]

On the top of my bucket list to see a murmuration of starlings in the real. Thanks for the upload, and again thanks for not playing music over the natural sounds. Although the edits are a little upsetting.

[@tinekedijk7385]

Like a fish, like a snake , like a dolphin ....endless glorious patterns . Praise God for his beauty .

[@dianefarley37]

Amen. To Him give all of the credit! 😃🎈

[@keirozj]

Overwhelming!!! Can just sit here and watch it all day!

[@nadeemezzedeen6112]

A wonderful nature scene, I dream to see it in real.

[@helenamcginty4920]

No intrusive music, however lovely. Beautiful. Thank you.

[@vreemish]

As magnificent as the Aurora Borea lis.

[@djr3386]

Beautiful 😢. Good camera work 👍🏽

[@sarribel]

This planet and all its living creatures, its plants, its oceans and rivers, in fact everything except humans, is the true paradise.

[@HelenaMikas]

@Modern Life EH Wonderful to meet a kindred spirit ..

[@uechiropractic8932]

This the best video I have ever seen! TY

[@debramorgan2242]

Simply awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@tinekedijk7385]

A wonderful dance !

[@Spike-ck5tj]

This is the most amazing footage of a murmuration I have ever seen. Lucky you. Breathtaking, I echo the comment about leaving the natural sounds. Beautiful.

[@Bobb1julie]

Nicely presented 👍🇺🇸

[@sands7779]

good footage, no jarring music, thank you

[@danutasobiech2322]

No music! Thank you!

[@eileenalholinna5310]

It would be so awesome to be there on that moor!!

[@roy-whereamI]

Awe inspiring, thanks a lot for posting this.

[@loisknott3763]

Beautiful.nature at it's best and again thankfully no.music

[@rtem365]

Amazing video Colin. 2014 was a brilliant year. Not too much to see last year but this year's display (2016) gets better and better.

[@colleenlyons7521]

Thank you so much!

[@1drrobert]

wonderful footage, thanks

[@taithmacerca2953]

Meditative to watch. One of Mother Nature's finest displays!

[@waitinginthepipeline]

Great footage, thanks for posting.I must get myself to visit there one day.

[@angelaabademachado]

ଣଘଘଭ ଷଲଡଂଏ

[@eileenalholinna5310]

These starlings are just so amazing. God’s handiwork!

[@SMX815]

Great video & amazing photography 👍🇬🇧👏🙏

[@Itsme-mv5zt]

Awesome. Thanks

[@tinekedijk7385]

Stupendous !

[@lesliehilesgardener6959]

Always looked at these events as the LAST DANCE 💃 BEFORE THE ROOST DELIGHTED WITH THE SETTING SUN AND EVEENINGS COOL BREEZE THEY DANCE AS ONE BIG FAMILY GOOD NIGHT JOHNBOY

[@henrybonnetmorales5678]

Que hermosa es la naturaleza, no termino de asombrarme.

[@michaellawson6533]

Its so fascinating , and to think that schools of fish do it in the same fashion , like the sardine run passing Cape Town South Africa . Not to mention the millions of social weaver birds and finches , each in their own groups doing the same display before sleeping in the reed forests in the dry riverbeds, in Namaqualand,part of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

[@blackaddermusic]

I live not too far from here, is this a spot that's actually well known for murmurations!?

[@hugobarrera7205]

It's amazing how they move totally synchronized ,no bird is out of the big cloud, looks like a single organism , moving by itself and not thousands of birds just with a chip on their brains to make that alltogerher movements

[@highcotton63664]

Imagine not being able to see this anymore. The threats to our planet are real and affect every living organism including the starlings. Monoculture, deforestation, excessive mining, water and air pollution, all real threats that are happening right now. Pitch in where you can, even small differences can add up.

[@MichaelWDietrich]

I wonder if this spectacle may be some of what humans have done to the earth. After all, the huge accumulations of starlings in Rome, for example, in the last 10-12 years did not exist before. I would like to see this for myself, but I am afraid that, like the melting (calving) of the glaciers, it is just part of the disaster tourism with which mankind admires the destruction it causes itself.

[@HelenaMikas]

@@MichaelWDietrich true ..loss of habitat and huge masts have done some damage--

[@motherlandbot6837]

The local Starling murmurations that I spent hours enjoying during my childhood and adolescence were the products of Human activity, as they occurred in the NE US, and the birds were coming in to roost in stands of Old World Reeds (Phragmites communis). Both the Common Starlings and the Reeds were introduced by Humans to NA. We have a native population of P. communis that is outcompeted by its' much more synanthropic Old World brethren. These local murmurations are no more, because the Reed beds were destroyed as 'invasive'. They were also roosting sites for native Common Grackles, Red Wing Blackbirds, and Brown Headed Cowbirds. Female and juvenile Red Wings flocked, migrated, and roosted in these Reeds at different times from the adult male flocks that mixed with Starlings and Grackles. With their roosting sites gone due to Human resentment over the birds droppings left as they assembled in nearby trees in numbers that increased with proximity to the Reed beds, the Starlings have taken to roosting in groups of trees, and under the eaves of former detention processing centers on the campus of my alma mater. Those spectacular murmurations here are now a thing of the past, created and then fragmented by Humans.

[@victormacgill]

HI, This sequence is amazing. I am looking for an example of this flocking behaviour for a video for a course on systems theory and I am hoping you might give me permission to use some of this. I would only need a small po rtion of the video. Cheers

[@colinhtk]

Hi Victor, Yes I'm happy for you to use any of the material that will be of use to you, Colin.

[@surfinmuso37]

1:00 the bird by itself down below-"I'm an individual!"

[@fakharmuhammad4851]

Is it exists now in2023?

[@colinhtk]

I don't think so - the year I recorded this was quite exceptional for numbers.

[@dirkwieringa7274]

Beutifull

[@terrydunne2948]

wow

[@dancerelle5020]

How many estimate?

[@colinhtk]

I think it was generally thought between 20 and 25 thousand.

[@dancerelle5020]

@@colinhtk thnks for the reply. In Oregon I seen at Stewart's pond Eugene Oregon. There were over 100k geese that flew in. The sky was dark. It was amazing

[@disguisedangel2394]

Now imagine drones flying as a collective and possibly a lot smaller and what magic could mankind create in the sky

[@palomardemensajeraslopez3332]

😍😍😍

[@katarinastankovic7303]

Hi Colin, I was wondering what is the best way to reach you about potentially licensing this video for commercial use?

[@colinhtk]

Hi Katarina, use the email: [e-mail] The unedited material is available at full HD resolution if required, Colin.

[@redbegonia]

Hi Colin, i'm doing some paintings of murmurations and I would like to use a clip from your video with my work. I will give you credit for the video clip of course. May I?

[@colinhtk]

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying I've been away. Yes I'm happy for you to make use of any part of the video you like, Colin Harrison.

[@redbegonia]

@@colinhtk Thanks very much!

[@formidablefriend8228]

It's like a city of people just moving in the sky

[@عادلالشعلانالغامدي-ك9ل]

أيَّوَهُ

[@turinturambar3592]

Why do they do this? Are they telling stories from times immemorial?

[@msheart2]

They're so arvellous, so cooridinated so together, I do wish our skies weren't aerosolized with all that weathermod rubbish

[@1961maya]

..❤❤❤❤

[@michaellawson6533]

They move like a collective conscience . As if they were demonstrating a brainwave in 3D with variables in flowing intensity , each bird a brain cell operating together to project an image to us humans .

[@oocarroll]

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has coined the term 'morphic resonance' for this kind of phenomenon among birds, fish and other animals. 'Mainstream' Biology rejects it, of course.

[@rikellis7871]

This is an old video, but this year, 2023 could be the year of the rapture, as such, all Christians should be prepared for a similar site compromised of billions of angels, led by Christ!