Saturday, November 5, 2011

To experience a Murmuration...

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.



...would be PHENOMENAL! You can tell by how breath-taken the girls are at the end as they laugh in astonishment. As I said on Facebook, Nature is the most amazing choreographer. Flocks of birds and schools of fish; how do they move en mass so synchronously?! We will probably never know and that's OK but most of us will never experience such a marvel of nature, and that is sad. It is hard to imagine that the Passenger Pigeon, who was once even more abundant and flew in flocks so large they blackened the sky for HOURS at a time, is now extinct. If it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone. Let's not forget that many birds and fish species once flocked and schooled in such numbers. Not many do now. Don't let your baselines shift! Do what you can to protect wild birds and fish, and their habitats so we can all experience such natural phenomena!

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