Penny and I had the privilege to see one of the greatest free shows on Earth, yesterday: Brighton’s 40,000 starlings in a startling, heart-stopping and seemingly impossible display of aerial acrobats.
They were swooping around, above and beneath the pier at dusk, diving toward the water and soaring out to sea in an ever-changing black ribbon. Then they’d regroup into a mesmerising, undulating orb that twisted out into two groups, each side of the pier, before rising back up to become one again.
The view from the end of the ‘doughnut’ groyne was incredible, the birds just a few metres away from us.
We caught the last of the show from up on the pier, hundreds of black darts swooping beneath us to roost on the framework.
Two other flocks were performing for us: one over the West Pier, and another, huge flock around Sussex Heights and the tower above Churchill Square: using the two blocks like a figure-8 racing track.
Amazing.
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