hese were the stunning scenes over the Scottish borders as thousands of starlings gathered to roost .
In a beautiful natural display of formation flying, they took the shape of a whale soaring through the skies at Gretna Green.
The image captures what bird experts call a 'murmuration’ of starlings, which is when the birds return en masse to their winter roost from a day's feeding which can be as much as 20 miles away.
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