This stunning footage shows a starling murmuration forming the shape - of a meerkat's head.<br /><br />George Varley, 40, went out to record the birds at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve in Doncaster earlier this month.<br /><br />And it was only when he got home and looked back at his video that he noticed the birds had flown in a formation - that resembled a meerkat's head.<br /><br />Other stills of the video appear to show a kestrel, a seal and a sheep.<br /><br />George, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, said: "I thought it looked like Snoopy at first glance, but then I started seeing the meerkat image like other people had mentioned.<br /><br />"I saw the eye form then the smiling mouth and decided to cut the image and make it into a still frame."<br /><br />The non-destructive testing technician is also a keen wildlife photographer and regularly visits nature reserves to watch the flocking starlings.<br /><br />He said: "Finally I had got the starlings making shapes of animals which I had wanted to capture for a while. <br /><br />"Maybe the starlings had got the meerkat idea from spending time at the Yorkshire wildlife park which is close to the reserve?"<br /><br />The video was taken on January 9, 2022.
