Tagged: Avalon Marshes

Starling Dawn - Ham Wall, Somerset Levels, UK. ID JB_6651

Starling Trail

Winter Morning at Ham Wall The last weekend in November and another trip down to Ham Wall.   This time for a morning, a very cold morning. Winter telling us it had arrived with...

Sunset - Ham Wall, Somerset Levels, UK. ID JB_4532

Starling Trail

It has been another busy week down at Ham Wall.  We have had some lovely weather, beautiful sunsets, and about 70,000 starlings. The low slit in the clouds allowed the setting sun to cast...

Starlings at Dawn - Ham Wall, Somerset Levels, UK. ID JB_2466

Starling Trail

The landscape of the Avalon Marshes is where a million starlings choose to spend their winter nights.  The marshes provide them some relative warmth and safety.  For us this provides an amazing spectacle to...

Starlings - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_5503

Somerset Year 2022

As is often the case my photograph year started with a sunrise at RSPB Ham Wall. Ham Wall Visits to RSPB Ham Wall to watch the starling murmurations tops and tails each year.  This...

Starling Murmuration - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_1139

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...

Walton Heath - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_9026

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 Murmuration - Walton Heath, Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_8083

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 Murmuration - Walton Heath, Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_6065

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...

Starling Murmuration - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3335

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...

Starlings Takeoff - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID JB_2778

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...