Tagged: Glossy Ibis

Glossy Ibis - Westhay Moor, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_6745

Glossy Ibis

The glossy ibis was once a rare vagrant to the UK but recently it is appearing more and more.  Here in the Somerset Levels we are particularly blessed. One I had just cycled through...

When I quack I want you to jump - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID 809_1986

Starling Trail

A Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) organises the starlings into line ready to leave their roost at RSPB Ham Wall. Quack!  The starlings jump and quickly fill the sky as they fly at speed over my...

The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) at Ham Wall

Starling Trail

This morning RSPB Ham Wall was sitting in the fog.  In this weather there was only one option and that was to go to the Tor View hide where you should be as close as...