Starling Trail
I have not been able to visit RSPB Ham Wall in the evenings recently so instead I have tried to make the most of the mornings. The weather has not been very great, with...
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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 Trail
Bonus trip to RSPB Ham Wall during a brief break in days of poor weather. This time trying out another new location. Watching from the bench in the south west corner of Waltons Heath....
Starling Trail
The starlings at RSPB Ham Wall become restless. Through the noise of a hundred thousand starlings a group of egrets make a quick get away. Just in time, moments later the huge flock of...
South Horrington Chapel
Before sunrise I was standing in a very cold field above the chapel of the former Mendip Hospital just outside the tiny Somerset city of Wells. The hospital generates it own mist. The steeple...
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...
Uphill Again
I folllowed by feet back up the hill at Uphill. As is often the case I there early. Early enough to capture the stars in the night sky above the old church. It has...
Lewis Drove Sluice
Sluice gates are a common sight across the Somerset Levels. But with no posts on this blog about these important structures I decided it was time to put this right. I planned a visit...
Autumn Equinox
This year I decided to re-interpret the date of equinox. Officially, the precise moment of the equinox at Glastonbury is Friday, 23 September 2022, 02:03 BST. Obviously, if it occurs in the middle of...
Blackmoor
Blackmoor Blackmoor is part of the prehistoric lead mining area of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Like neighbouring Ubley Warren it is covered in gruffy ground – a landscape of hollows, lumps and dumps formed...
