Lynchcombe in July
Lynchcombe Lynchcombe is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up on the sunny south facing ridge of the Mendip Hills. This July it has been dominated by musk thistles. The nodding heads of...
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Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Recently Somerset Wildlife Trust contractors and volunteers have been out clearing scrub and fixing fences around the nature reserve. There are still plenty of sheep sharing the steep Lynchcombe fields with those higher...
Corton Denham
The age of snowdrops is over, the time of the daffodil has come. Summer temperatures in Somerset. It is still February, this week last year we had 6 inches of snow, but this year...
Lynchcombe Steps
After the trips to Great Breach Wood it was time for Lynchcombe to demonstrate it can serve up its share of silver-washed fritillaries. It did not disappoint. Silver-washed Fritillaries The silver-washed fritillaries were still...
Lynchcombe Steps
I often visit Lynchcombe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Many times I wonder what surprises the reserve will have in store today. Sometimes nothing seems to be happening. This is usually because I’m...
Lynchcombe Steps
An update from Lynchcombe. Another walk around the butterfly transect. Its also that time of year to take a series of fixed point photographs. Fixed Point photographs: Each year I take a series of photographs...
