After ewe! Hilarious video shows sheep forming an orderly queue as they seek back garden refuge from Storm Jocelyn

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This hilarious video captures the moment 12 sheep formed an orderly queue to seek refuge from Storm Jocelyn in a homeowner’s back garden.

The herd was filmed on CCTV creeping up the driveway of a suburban semi-detached house in Edenfield, Lancashire in the middle of the stormy night.

More footage shows them standing by some outhouses and nibbling on grass before finally heading back out of the address when dawn broke around five hours later.

Homeowner Mark Howarth said he first noticed something moving outside his property at around 2.40am on Wednesday.

The herd was filmed on CCTV creeping up the driveway of a suburban semi-detached house in Edenfield, Lancashire in the middle of the stormy night

The herd was filmed on CCTV creeping up the driveway of a suburban semi-detached house in Edenfield, Lancashire in the middle of the stormy night

More footage shows them standing by some outhouses and nibbling on grass before finally heading back out of the address when dawn broke around five hours later

More footage shows them standing by some outhouses and nibbling on grass before finally heading back out of the address when dawn broke around five hours later

When he checked the footage from his Ring doorbell cameras he was stunned to find that his back garden had become a safe haven for the lost flock. 

He examined his cameras again in the morning, finding that the sheep had trotted off to ‘pastures new’ at around 7.30am after spending five hours in his garden.

He joked: ‘In total, I think there were 12 sheep, but I fell asleep after counting 12…!’

When homeowner Mark Howarth checked the footage from his Ring doorbell cameras he was stunned to find that his back garden had become a safe haven for the lost flock

When homeowner Mark Howarth checked the footage from his Ring doorbell cameras he was stunned to find that his back garden had become a safe haven for the lost flock

He examined his cameras again in the morning, finding that the sheep had trotted off to 'pastures new' at around 7.30am after spending five hours in his garden

He examined his cameras again in the morning, finding that the sheep had trotted off to ‘pastures new’ at around 7.30am after spending five hours in his garden

On the same Wednesday a dead fin whale was found washed up on a beach in Scotland as Storm Jocelyn battered coastlines.

Storm Jocelyn caused flooding, road closures and train services to shut down in the North as 80mph winds and torrential rain wrecked havoc just one day after Storm Isha.

Heart-stopping footage from the night of the storm shows a Ryanair plane struggling to land in 97mph winds at Leeds airport.