Earlier in the month I, along with MA Travel & Nature Writing course leader Stephen Moss, course tutors and fellow students, visited Ham Wall RSPB reserve on the Somerset Levels to watch the famous starling roost. We were treated to perhaps half a million birds streaming in, bunching, meshing and billowing, making a clear late afternoon sky appear grainy, before draining down into a distant area of reeds as though someone had pulled a celestial plug. The 'iron filings' image is very apt. It was said to be the best show the birds had put on there this winter. What was almost as interesting was the crowd of more than fifty people that gathered with us to watch, including a very small girl watching enthusiastically from her mother's shoulders.
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| Looking west towards the Polden Hills from Ham Wall. |
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