Crowds of bird watchers have been flocking to a rundown multi-storey car park to watch stunning starling murmurations.<br /><br />Tens of thousands of the birds have been returning every night to the Kingfisher Shopping Centre in Redditch, Worcs.<br /><br />Local residents started posting videos of the murmurations on social media since they started their displays in January.<br /><br />Their breathtaking aerial acrobatics have attracted hundreds of people who watch the birds from the top of the shopping centre.<br /><br />Shop worker Angie Wilson, 30, said she first noticed the starlings while walking home from work one January evening.<br /><br />She said: “It was just incredible, the entire sky seemed to go dark with birds and the noise was something else, like a screeching that just got louder and louder.<br /><br />“The way the starlings all moved together as one giant shape was mesmerising. I just stood and watched them for ages.<br /><br />“Since then I come down most nights when it’s not raining to watch them do their thing. <br /><br />"They've made their nests in the trees below the Kingfisher. It's quite a thing to have such amazing wildlife in the middle of a busy town.<br /><br />“It’s getting very popular and some nights there are dozens of people here. I think the car park is as full in the evenings as the days sometimes."<br /><br />The starlings come together mid-air above their roosting sites and perform what the RSPB call "mass aerial stunts" for a number of different reasons.<br /><br />Firstly, they do it for protection, with predators like birds of prey finding it difficult to single out individuals from among the flock.<br /><br />They also do it as a way to keep warm in the colder months and to exchange information with one another, including about good places to find food.<br /><br />The birds will begin their displays in the early evenings, just before dusk, as the night begins to draw in.
