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[Paul Voebel]

In the Scottish town of Gretna Green, from late autumn to early spring you can watch the amazing bird "air show".

[Paul Voebel]

During the annual migration to wintering in Scotland, European starlings fly (sturnus vulgaris), driven by the frost from their homes in Russia and Scandinavia. Soaring, flocks of these birds, like great black clouds in the sky, forming bizarre shapes.

[Paul Voebel]

The annual migration of starlings recalls that winter is on its way: Each year the birds arrive here from colder places, and remain until spring. Their wintering habitat is located in the southern part of the British Isles, but birds are especially numerous in the small Scottish town of Gretna Green, where he made these pictures.

[Paul Voebel]

During the winter, starlings every day suit "air dances": approximately an hour before sunset with a flock of all neighborhoods of the hordes of birds.During the winter every day at sunset a lot of starlings, "they go to dance" in the sky, executing collective pirouettes.

[Paul Voebel]

More than a million birds, flying along and across the great flocks, ignorant people can be easily mistaken for fast looming thundercloud.

[Paul Voebel]

Millions migrated from Russia and Scandinavia, to avoid the winter frost, the birds gather in flocks of incredible forms.



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