Lots Grassland
Lots Grassland is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up in the Mendip Hills. Being high means this is an acid grassland on sandstone. So a visit here makes a refreshing change from...
Tagged: Spring
Longwood Bluebells
Longwood is the spring jewel of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The wood is bursting with colour as bluebells carpet the woodland floor. Amongst the flowers are butterflies such as this brimstone searching out pools of...
Lynchcombe Steps
Spring lambs and spring butterflies cover Lynchcombe. Lynchcombe is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve on the steep sunny south edge of the Mendip Hills with fantastic views across Somerset. I’m a volunteer warden for the...
Another Round of Wild Garlic
Even from the outside you can see that something special is happening in Round Wood between Wells and Wookey Hole in Somerset. For many years I walked this wood each lunch time for a break...
April Showers
April showers are part of spring in Somerset. This shower curtain moved slowly across the sky above Wells. Strange Weather After a warm dry start to the spring this week the weather changed direction...
Swell Wood
A second visit to RSPB Swell Wood, not to visit the brilliant herons, but instead I wanted to see the spring flowers on the Scarp Trail. This walk is a sea of bluebells and yellow...
Swell Wood
The ancient oaks of RSPB Swell Wood is part of the woodland stretching from Langport to the Blackdown Hills which I should visit more often. This corner of South Somerset is truly a wonderland...
Steep Holm Wood
Steep Holm is a small wood between Dinder and Dulcote in Somerset. The whole area is a patchwork of little woods and it is difficult to tell from the maps where one ends and another...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe in spring is coming to life. A few flowers are blooming and my butterfly transect is well underway for another year. And of course some fantastic sunsets over the Somerset Levels. Spring Flowers...
Bluebell Dawn
After my recent visit to Park Wood to capture the bluebells in the evening light. Today I got up early to witness the flowers at dawn. Bluebells The sun creeps up slowly creating pools of light and...
