Hello All and what a year it had been so far.....!!

With the Starling Season upon us and with the current situation regarding social distancing and certain places around the country having various local lockdown measures we are changing this winters Murmuration Map .
We have seen that a couple of the Nature Reserves that feature on the Map have asked people not to travel distances to see the Starlings to help reduce numbers within the reserves. We have been requested to not activate some of these reserves and have taken to decision to temporarily remove these sites from the map.
If you are local to these reserves then please continue to add information to the Submit Info form and we will add that to our database when they are added back. 
We know that a lot of people will avoid these reserves with crowded narrow paths etc but there are a few great displays with huge open viewing areas like Brighton, Aberystwyth and Blackpool North Piers where not only do you get a great amount of Starlings coming to roost but there is a large viewing area for people to be able to spread out and social distance correctly. 
This brings us to an idea for this winter.... LOCAL STARLING SEARCH!! 
We think that this winter would give you the opportunity to search out the Roosts local to you.. 
If you do not know of any close to you then you could ask on your local Facebook Groups/Pages to see if they know of any locally, then you can let us know too.
We shall continue to monitor the situation as we go into the winter and see how the Map is working and what locations will need to be kept dormant for the time being. 
Please keep safe and take precautions... if there seem to be too many people consider moving on and coming back again at another time.
Thank you for now

​Glenn & Sarah

Hello All, 
Hope you all had a great Christmas and that you are now relaxing.
Quite a few of you are off for a week or two and we have had some good Map Update information. 
The map has now been updated and below is a list of the ones on our Murmuration Map that still show as active.#
If you know that any are no longer active, please let us know.

​Ayrshire, Adrossan Harbour.
Barking, Jenkins Recycling Centre
Berwickshire, Houndwood
Cambridgeshire, RSPB Fowlmere
Cheshire, Neumann's Flashes
Cheshire, RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands
Cheshire, Rostherne Mere
Conwy, RSPB Conwy
Cornwall, Poldhu Cove, Mullion
Cornwall, Rough Tor
Cornwall RSPB Marazion
County Durham, Daddry Shield.
County Kerry, Nine Daughters Hole, Nuns Beach.
Cumbria, Jubilee Bridge.
Cumbria, North Walney.
Cumbria, Siddick Ponds
Cumbria, Silloth Airfield
Cumbria, Watchtree Nature Reserve.
Derbyshire, Cavendish Mill, Stoney Middleton
Derbyshire, Ogston Reservoir.
Devon, Exe Estuary.
Devon, Heathfield Newton Abbot
Devon, Slapton Ley.
Devon, Southerton, Newton Poppleford
Dorset, Burton Mere.
Dorset; nr Wareham
Dorset, West Bexington NR
Dumfries and Galloway, RSPB Mersehead
East Riding of Yorkshire, Brough Aerodrome.
East Sussex, Brighton Pier.
East Sussex, Hastings Pier
Essex, West Mersea
Essex Wildlife Trust Gunners Park
Gloucester, Cotswold Water Park
Hampshire, Beaulieu River
Hampshire, Blashford Lakes NR
Hampshire, Freegrounds Road Area.
Hampshire, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth.
Hampshire, Ibsley
Hampshire, Market St Eastley.
Hampshire, Redbridge Causeway
Herefordshire, Hereford
Ireland, Co.Tipperary, Ballynonty
Ireland, Lake Shore Drive
Ireland; Tullaghnafrankagh Lough
Isle Of White, St Lawrence
Kent, Newchurch
Kent, Ramsgate Seafront.
Kent, Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve.
Lancashire, Brockholes NR
Lancashire, Glasson Dock
Lancashire, Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve.
Lancashire, North Pier, Blackpool.
Lancashire, RAPB Leighton Moss
Lincolnshire, Anderby Creek.
Lincolnshire, Far Ings NNR
Lincolnshire, Fiskerton Fen NR
Lincolnshire, Gibraltar Point NNR
Lincolnshire, Scotter Rd, Messingham
Lincolnshire, Spalding
Lincolnshire, Whisby Nature Reserve
Norfolk, Burnham Overy Staithe
Norfolk, RSPB Titchwell.
Northamptonshire, Stanford Reservoir
Northamptonshire, Summer Leys NR
Northern Ireland Albert Bridge Belfast
Northumberland, Lambley Mine Water Treatment Station
North Yorkshire, Catterick
North Yorkshire, Ripon Wetlands
Nottinghamshire, Attenborough Nature Reserve.
Oxfordshire, RSPB Otmoor
Perth & Kinross, Butterstone Loch
Selkirk, Pot Loch
Shropshire, Whixhall, Whitchurch.
Somerset, Dowlais Lane, Seawall Reserve.
Somerset, Ham Wall Nature Reserve.
Somerset. WWT Steart Marshes
South Uist, Ardkenneth
South Yorkshire, Potteric Carr Nature Reserve.
South Yorkshire, RSPB Dearne Valley - Old Moor
Staffordshire, Aqualate Mere
Suffolk, Aldeburgh, Martello Tower.
Suffolk, Covehithe Beach
Suffolk, RSPB Minsmere
Teesside, Coatham Marsh LNR.
Tyne & Wear, Amazon Warehouse
Tyne & Wear, Birtley Reed Beds
Tyne & Wear, Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.
Wales, Aberystwyth Royal Pier.
Wales, Anglesea, RSPB Cors Ddyga.
Wales, Cardiff Bay Wetlands.
Wales, Carmarthenshire, Llangeler
Wales, Powys, Llandegley Rhos Common
Wales, Powys, Llanrhaeardr-ym-Mochnant
Wales, RSPB Newport Wetlands
Wales, Ystumllyn Reed Beds, Criccieth
Warwickshire, Brandon Marsh
Warwickshire, RSPB Middleton Lakes
West Midlands, Weoley Castle
West Sussex Haywards Heath
West Sussex Hedgecourt Lake
West Sussex, Nutbourne Railway Stn
West Sussex Worthing Pier
Yorkshire, RSPB Fairburn Ings

With a week of October still left the active roost sites are coming in.

So far there have been 31 Starling roost locations either reactivated or added as new roost locations through people reporting them to us via our online form. For that we thank you.

As well as the forms sent to us we also carry out searches of various social media platforms like Twitter, Youtube and Facebook to try to find any extra locations posted by people that may not know about our website or murmuration map. 

Here are the Active locations as of 28th October 2019. 

​Ayrshire, Adrossan Harbour.
Buckinghamshire, Calvert Lake
Cornwall, Rough Tor
Cornwall RSPB Marazion
County Durham, Daddry Shield.
County Kerry, Nine Daughters Hole, Nuns Beach.
Cumbria, Jubilee Bridge.
Cumbria, North Walney.
Devon, Exe Estuary.
Devon, Slapton Ley.
East Sussex, Brighton Pier.
East Sussex, Hastings Pier.
Hampshire, Freegrounds Road Area.
Hampshire, Market St Eastley.
Kent, Ramsgate Seafront.
Kent, Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve.
Lancashire, Glasson Dock
Lancashire, Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve.
Norfolk, Burnham Overy Staithe
Norfolk, RSPB Titchwell.
Nottinghamshire, Netherfield Lagoons.
Shropshire, Whixhall, Whitchurch.
Somerset, Dowlais Lane, Seawall Reserve.
Somerset, Ham Wall Nature Reserve.
Suffolk, Hen Reed Beds.
Suffolk, RSPB Minsmere
Teesside, Coatham Marsh LNR.
Tyne & Wear, Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.
Wales, Aberystwyth Royal Pier.
Wales, Anglesea, RSPB Cors Ddyga.
Wales, Cardiff Bay Wetlands.
West Sussex Worthing Pier
Worcestershire, Kemerton Nature Reserve.

We have just updated the #murmurationmap tonight and two great locations are now Active. 

RSPB Ham Wall has decent numbers now roosting, but a video on Twitter shows amazing numbers coming to roost at Rough Tor in Cornwall. 

Good to see the roost site reports coming in now and the Map starting to look better.

Here's to the next couple of weeks and hopefully more locations.