These stunning photos show the moment a huge murmuration of starlings flew in unison across March’s full moon.
Remarkable pictures show a flock of thousands of starlings as they swooped across the skyline as the Moon reached its peak.
March’s full moon is known today as a Worm Moon, as it signals spring’s arrival when beetles and other animals emerge from winter hibernation. There are many other recorded names for the March moon, including the Sugar Moon.
The Ojibwe called it thus because it was the time when, provided a maple tree was tapped, the sap which had been too cold during the winter, would begin to run again.
In the UK, photographer Tony Nellis captured the starlings on the wing as the Moon rose over South Shields, Tyne and Wear, last Monday night.
“I couldn’t help think of the phrase ‘the early bird gets the worm’ when I saw the murmuration of starlings flying over the Worm Moon,” he said. “I took loads of pictures of them in the sky and suddenly they swooped down.”
“There were so many birds, the moon was almost blocked out with thousands of starlings silhouetted against it. It was an amazing sight.”
On American shores, the full moon didn’t appear until Tuesday morning, when it coincided with a Lunar eclipse, known colloquially as a “blood moon” which the Brits didn’t see.
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