Starling Trail
December begins with an astonishingly beautiful sunset at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels. The starling murmurations were pretty good too! In the evening light the first starlings to arrive do a fly-by...
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Starling Trail
A night of blood red skies and a hundred thousand starlings at RSPB Ham Wall. But before the starlings arrive a small group of seagulls finds it way home high up in the Mendip...
Starling Trail
Storn Arwen The biggest storm to hit the UK in years was causing a lot of damage up north. While in Somerset it was not as bad, it was bad enough to make me...
Starling Trail
The starlings return to their roost site at RSPB Ham on the Somerset Levels. The number of birds is still pretty low but enough to get excited about. The starlings drop into the reed...
Starling Trail
Back at the starling roost at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels. The first group of starlings for this evening arrive in a glorious sunset. Not a cloud in the sky, just some...
The Lonesome Pine
This lonesome pine stands in the pale moonshine in the middle of the Mendips Hills in Somerset. Known (by some) as the Priddy Tree it grows out of the top of a tumulus overlooking...
Starling Trail
Starling Trail – Back on! This was a day I had looked forward to since the start of the pandemic – a return to watch the starling murmurations over the Somerset Levels at RSPB...
Barrow Hill
Barrow Hill is a small but perfectly formed hill at Panborough in Somerset. In fact is so perfect that from some angles it looks handmade like a Somerset pyramid. I parked around the corner...
Westbury Moor
From up on Mendip you could look down over the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip and see large areas of water shining in the bright sunlight. It was time to take a closer look, so I...
Blue, White & Gold
North of the small City of Wells in Somerset is an area of the Mendip Hills called Priddy Mineries. It was once an industrial mining area for the Romans and then again for the...
