Tens of thousands of starlings form amazing animal shapes of a whale, a bird and a rabbit as they swoop across the sky.<br /><br />The huge group, known as a murmuration, were captured on camera as they soared above the village of Wall in Northumberland.<br /><br />Julie Collister, 63, filmed the natural phenomenon as she and husband Paul, 64, drove home from a weekend hiking.<br /><br />The gran, from Harbottle, Northumberland, said: “We were on our way home from the Lake District when suddenly the sky darkened overhead.<br /><br />“We got out the car and the whole sky was filled with birds. We assume they were starlings.<br /><br />“I grabbed my phone and started filming. It went on for ages and was just mesmerising to watch.<br /><br />“The shapes they formed were amazing. We spotted two whale shapes and what looked like a dog or a rabbit and a giant bird shape.<br /><br />“When I got home I posted the video on Facebook and loads of people started commenting, saying how incredible it was to see.<br /><br />“I’ve seen murmurations before but never like this.”<br /><br />Since uploading the footage on social media, Julie’s footage has been seen, viewed and shared tens of thousands of times.
