There has been a lot in the papers recently of that amazing natural phenomemon, the murmuration of starlings.
People have been amazed by them, having never seen them before. Yet in my childhood, such murmurations were absolutely normal. I spent the first few years of my life in London and such and they were a common almost daily experience and were seen regulalry across southern England, and probably elsewhere.
I read recently that the starling population has fallen by nearly 70% since 1970, hence the rarity, these days, of the sight of a murmuration. One of the clearest signs of global warming and the way we are destroying wildlife in this country as much as overseas.
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To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic