St Peter’s Daffodils
A couple of years ago I cycled passed St Peter’s Church in Draycott. It was on a route our group of cyclists call ‘The Edge of Mendip’. The Mendip Hills form a high plateau...
Follow Jeff Bevan across Somerset
A couple of years ago I cycled passed St Peter’s Church in Draycott. It was on a route our group of cyclists call ‘The Edge of Mendip’. The Mendip Hills form a high plateau...
Down in the valley there was no sign of snow, but looking out the bedroom window the hills were covered in the white stuff. So time to jump in the car and and get...
It was time to revisit Park Wood on the edge of Wells in Somerset. Celandines In the damper parts of the wood there was a carpet of yellow celandines. Bluebells But is it the...
My starling trail posts are normally from Somerset’s Avalon Marshes. This one is different, it is about what those huge flocks get up to during the day when they are not at their roost...
Rodney Stoke Rodney Stoke is a small village nestled below the Mendip Hills in Somerset. It has a beautiful old church that looks out across the open countryside of the Somerset Levels. Following the...
Recently I have been popping up to Deerleap for an evening stroll. Something I started during the lockdowns as my daily exercise from home. Today, I did not realise that a thunder storm was...
If you follow the road out of Wells to Wookey Hole and up the hill to Ebbor Gorge to the car park, then it is only a short walk to the deer leap standing...
Full Moons and Super Moons This month’s full moon is a supermoon. The distance between the Moon and the Earth varies because the Moon’s orbit is not a circle. If a full moon coincides...
Catching up with the Wells Poppy Trail at the Bishops Palace. The Somerset Poppies Following visits to the Cathedral and St Cuthbert’s Church today I visited the famous Bishops Palace in Wells. Volunteers had...
Over the years I have seen lots of dragonflies on Lynchcombe. This week was prime dragonfly season on this Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve. Sheep But as you climb over the stile into the reserve...