
It looks like a nightmare creation from the macabre mind of horror writer Edgar Allen Poe.

However, the bizarre image is in fact an expertly-timed photograph of a crow flying alongside a woman taken in the city of Aberdeen.

The determined-looking bird flew in front of the woman just as the picture was taken, giving the appearance of a bird with legs wearing wine-coloured tights.

Photographer Steve Black snapped this split second photo while out and about in the Scottish city. The crow flew by just as he took a generic street shot of a woman walking by, creating the strange juxtaposition of bird and human.