I sometimes need to be reminded I’m living in the middle of a miracle. This video does that.
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As a man (vs. a boy), I often get caught up in the day to day process of getting it all done. I forget joy. I forget nature. I forget that its all so amazing. When we’re kids, the wonder of the world is right there. As a man, I’m supposed to be excited by a fumble in football, or a spike in the stock market. And don’t get wrong, that stuff is fine. But this? This reminds me I’m living in the middle of a miracle.
The first few seconds of the film are still-frames, but just wait until the video starts—you will be astounded. Two young filmmakers in Ireland, Sophie and Liberty, document a natural phenomenon that will remind you of the deeply miraculous nature of the world around us. Some folks will see the hand of God in this, others, the wonder of Darwin’s natural world. Whatever your point of view, you must agree our world is an amazing place.
Go here to learn more about the filmmakers Sophie and Liberty and their work.
By the way, the term for this startling phenomenon is murmuration. The videographer here did an amazing job of tracking the motions and the scale of this event. Murmuration is an example of what is termed free-scale correlation. The behavior can be in response to a hawk or other predator. But the results are spectacular. And for me, the results are: we’re all part of a miracle.
Editor’s note: The video is presented here exactly as Sophie and Liberty edited it including their choice for music. (I love the music.)
Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.
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Thank you for sharing such great content. Maureen
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Crebain from Dunland!
Wow.. This is fascinating and I have never seen anything like this before.
Thank you to ALL of you for sharing.
Can someone at least tell me where this was filmed?
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Starlings roosting in the evening. Quite a common site in UK.
If you haven’t come across this yet you must be very young or sheltered.
Still it is a fantastic spectacle.
Anyone know what the song is?
Don’t need the music. Let the images speak for themselves.
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Wow…so many comments..and I’m compelled to give one too…look guys is there any human who can CREATE any living matter..the ans is no…GOD IS GOD he is none like any of us or his creation…many humans had claimed they are god and many human had been worshipped as god…by humans that does not use their reasoning to realise their stupidity…all you need to do is look out and think,especially those who dont beleive there is god…everything made there must be its creator…just like this site created by someone…so we and the universe are created…by GOD
You forgot to capitalize a few of them!
I call BS on the whole damn shemozzle. I fart on it’s face, smells better already. Birds poo on my car so I call farts, farts on birds and farts on the rapturous god-bothering, joy-pitching shonkies with the desperation oozing from their perishing eyelid follicles. :-)(-:
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Bird shit dodging: expert mode
Speaking as a music lover, the music has jz covered the sound of nature, the video and the captured sound itself are already priceless 😉
Don’t try to analyze this, don’t try to justify it, it is simply amazing, awesome – in the true sense of the word. Memorable. Beautiful.
Thank you so much, Sophie and Liberty, for being there, for having your camera rolling. And for sharing this video.
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Plot twist: the two females’ bodies have been recovered in what authorities believe to be a case of a gruesome attack by a swarm of carnivorous birds in a real-life instance of life imitating art a la Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. This video is found footage before the attack.
Just a bunch of birds flying around. Don’t see the big deal. See birds flying everyday.
All I can say is WOW!!! Thank you for sharing. Irregardless of my beliefs or non-belief’s, I can truly appreciate this for what it is. Something beautiful that brightened my day. It was awe-inspiring to me no matter how it transpired or was provoked. Thank you for putting a smile on my face.
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The occurrence of the birds captured on film doing what they’ve done for millenia is brilliant and surreal (the young women are fairly fetching as well). The backing music, however, is unfortunately unnecessary. It is contrived and trivialises the event. I wished to hear the whoosh, swoosh and whirl of the assembled birds and the naked reactions and comments of the young women, not a Chicago-esque rip-off soundtrack drowning it all out.