Ham Wall Starling murmuraton

THE starlings were wonderful tonight at Ham Wall RSPB reserve in Somerset - there were thousands and thousands, but they were generally far off, in small groups or elsewhere!  

That did not stop us enjoying the calm, bright and cold evening along with many others.  As usual nature was not predictable...there were no tight massing of birds - as they flew in a settled quickly, so these images are just to get a sense of the place and the scale of the flocks: