Starling Trail
Not every day brings the best weather for starling watching. At RSPB Ham Wall it was dark and a bit dull. Only directly overhead could you find a patch of blue sky. Chance to...
Monthly Archive: November 2022
Starling Trail
How does RSPB Ham Wall continue to produce such wonderful sunsets. And some great starling displays! A huge cloud of starlings appear out of no where, and float across a colourful sky. Looking over...
Lynchcombe Steps
It has been a quiet time up on the Lynchcombe nature reserve in the Mendip Hills of Somerset. We have a lot of showers recently. The upside of which has been some wonderful rainbows....
Starling Trail
It has been an amazing start to the starling season at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels. Not only have the number of birds easily reached half a million. They have been roosting...
Starling Trail
A beautiful sunset this evening at RSPB Ham Wall. The starlings are moving their roost site from the northern edge of the reserve to a reed bed called Walton Heath. This is popular location...
Starling Trail
The first few starlings stream back to RSPB Ham Wall in front of a golden evening sky. Looking north the number of birds grow as they swirl into patterns across the sky. Ham Wall...
Beacon Hill in Autumn
Autumn is sometimes very short, this year seems to have taken that to new levels. Perhaps I was too distracted chasing starlings around Somerset? Beacon Hill Wood is one of my favourites and being...
Starling Trail
Another week at RSPB Ham Wall watching the famous starling murmurations. Due to my day job I visited mainly during the mornings, in fact I got to the reserve too early. So I passed...
Starling Trail
The first large flocks arrive at RSPB Ham Wall for another cool winter night roosting in amongst the reeds. Yet another the weather was kind. I was able to look west to watch the...
Starling Trail
Three starling tornados raising out above the reeds at RSPB Ham Wall. Another Sunset The end of another week watching the starling murmurations at Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels in the UK. Another...
