More Autumn observations

It has been crazy here today with scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'! There have been thousands of starlings swooping and whooshing around in the sky. The displays are quite something else. I wish I could have videoed it, but without a video camera it would have been tricky! The other thing is the noise they make when they do a huge flypast or take off from perching in the trees, it almost sounds like thunder or one of those RAF jets that we sometimes get. When in the trees or trying to get in the Guinness Book of records for the most starlings on a telephone line, they chatter incessantly, love to know what they are talking about. When they sit on the wires apart from chatting they move around and one might fly off and then come back again, they seem to have a designated amount of space between each one so if a new one comes into perch they all shuffle up, it is very very funny!

Of course the other thing that is lovely to look at right now are the changing colours of the leaves and whilst off to work yesterday and while we had a bit of sunshine I tried to take some photos of the lovely colours. Sadly I was already late for work when I left so the pictures were taken rather hurriedly. Today it has been grey and horrible and the next week sounds like it could be very very wet and very windy so not good for taking photos and by the time the weather has settled down I wouldn't be surprised if all the leaves had gone.