Starling murmuration captured above city's streets
Thousands of starlings have been putting on a display above a street in Hull.
The flock of birds first appeared four weeks ago, but have since been joined by many others during their murmuration at dusk.
Sarah Richardson, who filmed the spectacle, said: "There's absolutely thousands of them."
The birds fly together in large groups called murmurations to create shapes and scare away predators.
When the birds are satisfied a threat has passed, they descend into their roost in a loud flurry of flapping wings and chattering.
Ms Richardson has lived on Amethyst Road, near Alderman Kneeshaw park, for 11 years but said this was the first time she had witnessed the spectacle above her street.
She was in the garden at dusk when she first noticed them, and more kept arriving each night, she said.
Ms Richardson said the birds began gathering at about 16:45 GMT and the murmuration would last about an hour before they swooped down beyond her house into an area covered in ivy.
"Thousands of them will just descend into the ivy just like it's raining," she said.
"The cats have stopped going out."
The RSPB said the best time to see murmurations was at sunset between November and early March.
The birds increase in number during this period as many starlings have migrated to the UK from Scandinavia.
In the spring, the birds return to their summer homes to get ready for the breeding season.
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