The Hula Reserve is know for the massive number of birds that migrate twice a year and make a stop in this reserve to rest and feed themselves. Up until the 1950’s it was a swamp with mosquitos carrying malaria and so it was drained. A small section was later re-flooded in an attempt to revive a nearly extinct ecosystem. An estimated 500 million migrating birds now pass through the Hula Valley every year.

My third visit came in Febreuary 2026 and each time the light is different and you get different images. I tried to concentrate on the early hours before sunrise and finished during the course of the morning. All the unmarked images are of cranes

This was my second visit end of January 2025. The light was not as good as the first time but we were taken much closer to the field where the cranes are fed and therefore I had much more chance of taking close(r) up shots of the cranes.

This was my first visit in November 2020