Now that’s a birds eye view! Stunning photo captures moment thousands of starlings surround man’s car
- Jamie Kingscott, 26, photographed a murmuration of starlings on the Somerset Levels
- The ecologist said there were thousands of starlings flying low to the ground around his car
- According to Mr Kingscott, this was the lowest murmuration he has witnessed in the area
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This stunning photo captures thousands of starlings as they surrounded a man’s car.
Ecologist’s Jamie Kingscott, 26, was on his way to work when the birds flew directly across the road in front of him.
He found himself in his car inside a murmuration on his way to the Somerset Levels.
This is the moment ecologist Jamie Kingscott, 26, found himself in a murmuration while on his way to work in the Somerset Levels
Mr Kingscott told the BBC: ‘There was several thousand of them. They were all over the place. They lend themselves to impressive photography. They show off to the camera quite nicely’
Mr Kingscott told the BBC: ‘There was several thousand of them. They were all over the place.
‘They lend themselves to impressive photography. They show off to the camera quite nicely.’
Mr Kingscott works for Secret World Wildlife Rescue as a wildlife relief co-ordinator.
He said that unlike in a standard murmuration, the birds were very low to the ground.
‘They crossed the road in front of me and then turned and crossed back over, so I just stopped the car and watched,’ he said.
‘I fumbled around for my phone to try and catch something of it and that was the only photo I managed.
‘Then I put it on twitter and its gone mad.’
He added: ‘They were really low, so less of the standard murmuration, but they did do a bit of a flourish to show off, and they came right over the bonnet… it was quite something.’
‘You can’t help but be slightly impressed.’