Immortality!

Were that these images, or this post, had been compiled on the 5th March, but alas, 'twas not to be. Either way, I feel that I have over-posted on the Sta(r)lin(g) theme. Good riddance to the one, long live the other!



The best that I can offer, is to write that the flock continues to fascinate. Perhaps the regular roost site, above St Stephen's Street, may not be offering such reliably-pinned-down performances, but the wider Norwich conurbation appears to have taken up the slack and benefited.



These images were taken on the 9th March, whereupon numbers seemed to be in almost constant flux. My pictures were generally shot with the flock approaching its apparent maximum. I particularly enjoyed the helter-skelter moments, when the murmuration was often stretched out to lengths approximating a quarter of a mile or so.



Assuming that the presumed roost site remains constant, the birds are now ranging over a south-western section of the city, anything up to half a kilometre from St Stephen's Street.

Flock size would seem to suggest that current numbers are once again as impressive as before the sudden shift. But, with the temperatures climbing and daylight hours increasing, it must surely be but a matter of time before a (second) demise.