Lynchcombe in October
October Catching up with another month at Lynchcombe. The month when most of the insects disappear, the fungi come out and the days end in beautiful sunsets. This devil’s coach horse beetle was a...
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Butterfly Glades
Great Breach Wood is a Somerset Wildlife Trust woodland in the middle of the county south of Glastonbury. It still has lots of ash and oak trees, but today I wanted to explore its...
Langford Heathfield
A visit to the Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve of Langford Heathfield near Wellington in Somerset. Langford Heathfield This is a large reserve that has survived because it is common land protected from development...
Darter Charts
After the summer the Waldegrave Pond up on the Mendip Hills is very dry. This patch of open water, and a couple of others about the same size, are all that remains. This is...
Lynchcombe Steps
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...
Lynchcombe Steps
After a couple of months of butterflies its time for the dragonflies to dominate the Lynchcombe nature reserve. Migrant Hawkers It been about 5 years since there has been such large numbers of migrant...
Lynchcombe Steps
I went away for a couple of weeks only to return and find it feels more like autumn than the summer I left behind. The light of high summer has disappeared to be replaced of the...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe does not have any ponds or river. The only water on the reserve runs in from Deerleap through a pipe in a dry-stone wall then in the shade of dense tree cover it...
Lynchcombe Steps
Such beautiful weather for the time of year. Calm winds, blue skies and some fluffy white clouds above Lynchcombe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Hawthorn Lynchcombe is covered by hawthorn bushes. They add a lot of...
Lynchcombe Steps
In the middle of September when the hot summer days of August are still in our minds we suddenly find ourselves in autumn. During a walk around Lynchcombe I discovered that the berries and brown colours...
