Burtle Loop
Burtle Loop This straight stretch of road is part of Strava‘s Burtle Loop. I’ve cycled it so many time that I’m currently the their Local Legend for this Loop. The tag of Local Legend...
Tagged: Starling Murmurations
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...
Starling Trail
Christmas Time The build up to Christmas at Ham Wall and the starlings are still roosting in Waltons Heath. Before the birds arrived the reeds glowed in the last golden light of the evening....
Starling Trail
Hall Wall Another beautiful sky at RSPB Ham Wall. I think sometimes I like the skies more than the starlings – probably not. Today the sky did not have the deep red colours of...
Starling Trail
Another sky full of starlings at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset levels. Today I was not sure where to go and watch, so I settled on the Tor View hide. So many times...
Starling Trail
Starlings at Ham Wall Recently the starlings have going to the west and east sides of Waltons Heath (by the new viewing platform) and also across into Loxtons Marsh (further down the reserve). This...
Starling Trail
After the success of my last visit I returned to the same spot on Ham Wall today. It was still really windy and so I hoped the birds would behave the same. The starlings...
Starling Trail
Back waiting for the starling flocks to arrive on another cold winter evening at Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels. For a while I sheltered from the cold and wind in the Tor View...
