After an abortive first trip to see the birds
(they didn't show and Hector caught me on
film looking a bit fed up waiting around at
the start of the film!) Sally, Jessica and I
were lucky a few days later....
I'm heard to say 'Good Heavens. Look at
this!' I was right to be impressed.. it was
an astonishing sight of an immense flock of
gathering starlings preparing to roost at
dusk in February 2008 at Gretna, Southern
Scotland, beside the M74 as trucks and cars
thunder by. Watch out for the sparrowhawk at
the flock edge as it tries to pick off birds.
Makes you realise just how irrelevant humans
are. The film can't get anywhere close to
portraying the beauty and enormity of this
sight. You can feel the air push around you
as the flock whooshes overhead.
The music is Jan Garbarek, from the album
Officium.
My exclamation of 'No' at the end on the
soundtrack is disbelief not annoyance. I
simply couldn't believe what a fantastic
sight it was.
There are lots of my photos of this at:
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Features all of Derrys' goals from their 5-1
triumph over Scottish side Gretna.
Goals from Darren Kelly, Kevin Deery (2) &
Ciaran Martyn (2).
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The Hugh Trowsers band's "Living the Dream"
Gretna FC Scottish Cup Final 2006 version. It
was top 30 in the UK Indie charts for a few
weeks. Tags :GretnaFCLivingDreamHughTrowsersmuthill
Here I am bagpiping with the Gretna Green
Piper... We are playing Scotland the Brave:)
our chanters are not tuned correctly that's
why it sounds a bit wrong... but still nice:) Tags :bagpipebagpipinggretnagreendutchpipesanddrumsscotlandthebrave