Starling Trial
As we all know you watch a sunset the sky brightens as the sun sits just above the horizon. The as the sun drops the colours fade. Only to find 10 to 20 minutes...
Tagged: Murmurations
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...
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
Today Shapwick Heath turned into a frosty winter land. Perfect day for a very cold bike ride. The frost was only hanging around in the shade, creating a wonderful contrast with the warm evening...
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 starlings return to their roost at RSPB Ham Wall in the middle of a series of rain showers. The Starling Season Begins This has been my first week making visits to Ham Wall...
Starling Trail
I took half day’s leave from work so I could head across to Shapwick Heath to catch the starlings returning to their overnight roost. The birds had moved from Ham Wall a week before....
Starling Trail
Starling Roost It’s a new year and the starlings have recently moved from RSPB Ham Wall to a new site in the Roughet at the far end of Natural England’s Shapwick Heath. Its been a...
Starling Trail
Avalon Hide After the Christmas break it was time to return to RSPB Ham Wall to catch the starlings returning to their overnight roost. The last few days had been dark and grey, and...
