Starlings, millions of them? (1 Viewer)

[oldgiteggy]

Driving through West Wales, my wife and I had to stop the car on the A40 near Slebech (west of Narbeth) to watch untold tens of thousands of starlings heading for a roost. Looking straight up, they filled your field of view and the vast numbers of birds filling the sky were all travelling in the same direction (unlike the Bill Oddie video on Spring/Autumnwatch). Driving further on, we pinpointed their destination as somewhere near Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire. Anyone know of this roost?

 

[Original PaulE]

Driving through West Wales, my wife and I had to stop the car on the A40 near Slebech (west of Narbeth) to watch untold tens of thousands of starlings heading for a roost. Looking straight up, they filled your field of view and the vast numbers of birds filling the sky were all travelling in the same direction (unlike the Bill Oddie video on Spring/Autumnwatch). Driving further on, we pinpointed their destination as somewhere near Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire. Anyone know of this roost?

i can't help you there but i,m also dying to see them after so many views of bill oddies brilliant film so if anyone knows of a roost in the suffolk area i would love to know

 

[Chris Oates]

Can't help either but Starlings have started arriving here - yesterday I saw many flocks coming in, must have been tired as they were trying to daylight roost in palm trees but they couldn't all fit so they took off into the town heading for a tree in the churchyard that they used years ago - the roost then got so out of control that the tree was severely cut back but it has since grown. Be interesting to see if the roost re-establishes as it was the greatest natural event I've witnessed, after shorting out the power lines at Marazion with their weight (every day) they'd come into St Ives darkening the skies with their magic silhouette show. The roost was in the bottom of a valley giving stunning views from above of the birds coming in at eye level.
The smell and danger to pedestrians put an end to it - the playing of various bird recordings was hilarious though as the Starlings ignored them.