Strange photos of winter starlings

When winter comes, the sky at Gretna Green on the Scottish border is densely packed with wintering birds and these birds have created unexpectedly funny shapes.

Looking at these figures, the whale hunter in Moby-Dick, Ahab must have woken up his crew and cried out: 'The boys throw their whale fishing in the sky'. Because in the sky is the shape of a giant white whale swimming. And this image is real, not fiction. (Moby-Dick is a work on the giant whale hunt journey, launched in 1851, which was nominated to be the "Official Book" of Massachusetts, USA).

The starling flock has created a shape similar to this giant sperm whale.

This photo was taken at Gretna Green on the Scottish border, scientists called it a miraculous group of starlings. The Scandinavian starlings often come here to winter and their numbers increase in December. To ensure the safety of the birds, they constantly fly in a twisted shape, changing their shape to deceive the enemy.

The change in flight patterns of birds has created many shapes such as full-fledged fin and nose whales, recorded by the researcher of tracking starlings, photographer Gail Johnson and Fiona Exon. Fiona Exon said: 'This shape is so interesting that a picture cannot be described.'

Previously, the starlings of Gretna's sky starlings drew famous figures like Donald Duck cartoon characters, lips of Rolling Stones rock singer Mick Jagger, or an easy penguin image. love .

The cute penguin image was taken in 2007 in the sky of Gretna

Famous cartoon character Donald Duck

The lips of rocker Mick Jagger in the Rolling Stones music

Picture of a giant bird flying over the sky of the Scottish border

And Marvin cartoon character in the cartoon series The Martian, Mars.

Exon recounted: 'For about a quarter of a hour, small starlings from everywhere gather together and create a colony of giant starlings. I can feel the movement up high when they are not far from us and gather on the highway ".

There are still predatory birds mainly cut birds, hovering around the edge of the birds 'corner to catch the stray starling birds, but the flock of birds fluttering and encircling them.'