4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you. |
0:06.4 | Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses. |
0:13.2 | Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars. |
0:17.4 | Race you, let's go. |
0:19.5 | Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can, |
0:22.1 | at an RHS garden near you. |
0:24.0 | Book tickets online for discounts, |
0:26.0 | plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. |
0:36.5 | What you're hearing right now is the extraordinary sound of a starling murmuration. |
0:43.3 | From the south coast to west Wales to the Scottish borders. |
0:47.3 | These special displays mesmerise people across the country. |
0:51.3 | Early evening, just before dusk is the best time to see thousands of birds |
0:55.7 | swooping and diving in unison, a real winter treat. Scientists think that Starlings |
1:03.8 | perform murmurations for many reasons. Grouping together offers safety in numbers, as predators |
1:10.1 | find it hard to target individual birds in a flock of thousands. |
1:13.6 | They also gather to keep warm at night, and we think, to exchange information, such as good feeding areas. |
1:20.6 | It's such a unique thing to see, but sadly it's something that could be disappearing from our view. |
1:29.4 | According to the RSPB, the Starling population has fallen by more than 80% in recent years, |
1:36.0 | meaning they've gone from being one of the commonest garden birds to being on the red list of UK birds most at risk. |
1:46.9 | So with habitat shrinking around the UK, there's lots we should be doing at home, |
1:52.0 | especially during the winter to help our wildlife thrive. |
1:56.1 | Like making a wildflower lawn, for example. |
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