Counting These Sheep Is Captivating, Even If They Do Look Like Maggots

The herds look like little grubs in this aerial footage.
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Who knew watching sheep being sorted for shearing could be so mesmerizing?

Time-lapse video filmed from the sky shows hundreds of the wooly mammals being herded into different pens on farmland north of Thargomindah in Queensland, Australia.

The sheep stream between the various enclosures, looking not entirely unlike maggots squirming around in a jar.

Andrew Hughes, 33, posted the stunning clip that he filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 drone to Facebook on Tuesday.

"It shows my father drafting Merino sheep into mobs so when they go into the shed to be shorn, the wool is all the same and easier to be pressed into bales," he wrote.

The video had gotten more than 200,000 views by Friday morning. Hughes later posted a second clip (above) showing the sheep leaving the pens and swarming out into their nearby paddock.

From the ground, it's a totally different scene from above, as the sheep shearing is carried out.
From the ground, it's a totally different scene from above, as the sheep shearing is carried out.
Facebook/Andrew Hughes Photography

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