Cowslips in the Headlights
First, apologies for the long gap since my last post. I have a backlog of comments to look at, which is really bad – sorry. In the meantime at the start of the...
Tagged: Spring
Spring!
I have been away for a couple of weeks walking in the national parks of Utah. When I left the UK was still suffering from a long hard winter. On my return the sun...
South Cadbury Daffodils
This spring I have been doing a tour around the parishes of Camelot photographing the churchyard flowers. Having visited Blackford, Bratton Seymour, Holton, Maperton, North Cheriton, and Yarlington today it was the turn of South Cadbury....
Last Snowdrops
A few days ago I visited Glastonbury Abbey, this is unusual for me as you have to pay to get in. But I new it had a good collection of snowdrops so it was...
Starling Trail
Ham Wall Car Park For many years cars squeezed into the small car park between Shapwick Heath and Ham Wall. When it overflowed during starling season cars would line the narrow road. Then the RSPB...
South Hill
South Hill is a postage stamp size nature reserve in South Somerset managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It has open access so I made a detour on the way home from work and spent...
Small Blue
They say small is beautiful so today I headed up to the Stoke Camp reserve hoping to find the Small Blue (Cupido minibus) butterfly. Stoke Camp Stoke Camp is a nature reserve owned by...
Lynchcombe Steps
As the year makes the transition from spring to summer I expected to see a dip in the number of records on my butterfly survey across Lynchcombe. At this time of year hawthorn is in blossom...
Babcary Meadows
I visited Babcary a few weeks ago. Back then in April the hay meadows were still waiting for spring to arrive. Today I returned to the meadows to see if things had progressed. The...
Lots Grassland and GB Gruffy
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...
