Short visit to Glastonbury during the morning before moving on to Wells and an interesting visit to Wells Palace and Cathedral. One of the advantages of visiting places of interest out of season is the one to one you have with your guide. Only four of us for the most interesting history talk and water walk around the Palace grounds. The Swans tugging at a bell when ready for food was amazing. The current caretaker and his wife who live at the moat entrance carry out this role now.
Late afternoon/early evening was spent at Ham Wall RSPB nature reserve near Glastonbury for the murmuration. What an experience, my photography does not do the experience justice. It was a sight to behold. Hundreds, in fact thousands of Starlings looping the loop back to their roosting area, trees or a field of rushes. An amazing sight I will never forget. The sunset added to the atmosphere, at its best it was pillar box red, at the end just a pale pink but still stunning.
Picture 1 - Moat at the entrance to Wells Palace.
" 2 - Wells Cathedral through an arch in the Palace gardens.
" 3 - " " from the Palace gardens.
" 4 - Explanation of the Swans feeding procedure.
" 5 - Swans feed time.
" 6 - Inside Wells Cathedral.
" 7 - I was not the only one at the Murmuration.
" 8 & 9 - The Murmuration.
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