Fighting Skylarks
As March arrives the skylarks return to the Mendip Hills and immediately start fighting. The birds return close to their birthplace and fight over territories. And you can see why as this is a...
Category: Cooks Fields
Autumn Lady’s-Tresses
For a few mornings I have popped up the hill to the Deerleap picnic site, and followed the sheep over to Cooks Fields. I headed out before sunrise to capture the first light on...
Solstice at Howling Gate
Howling Gate is my name for gateway on Cook’s Field. This is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up in the Mendip Hills. To appreciate its name you need to stand next to...
Sheep Gate
Sheep are keeping the grass a bit shorter up on the Deerleap field. On the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills this is a very popular spot for a stroll. Sheep everywhere. Over the...
Cooks Fields
The Cook’s Fields nature reserve overlooks the Somerset village of Westbury-sub-Mendip. On a clear day you can see for miles across to Glastonbury Tor and the Somerset Levels. Today, after enjoying the views, I...
Trees and Sky
At the top of Cook’s Fields in the Mendip Hills is a clump of beach trees. The land is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve, and the trees are a local landmark. From this...
Axe Valley Hills
I clear sky and a few clouds are the perfect mix for some autumn dawn colours, so I headed up the Mendip Hills in the hope of some long views across the Axe Valley....
Autumn Lady’s-Tresses
Next to Lynchcombe nature reserve is another brilliant Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve called Cooks Fields. I walk through a corner of it every time I visit Lynchcombe. In that corner is the tiny special...
Cooks Fields in Spring
Spring time, but on Cooks Fields along the exposed southern ridge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset it was clearly still winter time. Cooks Fields Cooks Fields is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve...
Cook’s Fields Sunrise
It was the morning after the evening before as I returned to Cook’s Fields to photograph the Sycamores at the top of this Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve. The morning was to have everything: some snow,...
