It's certainly true that I've seen closer rose-coloured starlings in the past but actually todays bird at Frodsham Marsh was a good as any I've seen but for different reasons. True it was about 150m away on the other side of the Manchester Ship Canal opposite Marsh Farm, and yes it was often out of view in the long vegetation, but it was a cracking summer plumage adult and for once it was nice not have to watch it in somebody's back garden in the middle of a housing estate, and even better it was great to see it interacting with a large flock of starlings. Actually very few of the rose-coloured starlings I have seen have been with starling flocks, they have almost all been alone or with just a handful of starlings, so great to see it flying in the middle of a large flock. Yes it's not the most scenic place in the world, but it's a wild place, a proper birders place and a great place to see a rose-coloured starling, only my second ever adult.
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