Bidcombe Wood
This is another post venturing over the Somerset border into a neighbouring county. This is because I recently struggled around a gravel cycle ride around the Wiltshire Downs that was organised by Glorious Gravel....
Category: Bluebells
Prior’s Wood
Respect the Bluebells Prior’s Wood in the north west corner of Somerset is promoted as a bluebell wood. So you can imagine it was been on my radar for a long time. Finally, I...
Manaton
A different post today as I ventured over the border from Somerset into Devon. Staying in the village of Manaton on the edge of Dartmoor. This was not to see this wonderful alpaca. Instead...
Bluebells at Park Wood
Today I made my annual visit to Park Wood to see the bluebells. This tiny little wood in Somerset can be found off the cycle track east of equally tiny City of Wells. I...
Fuller’s Hay
I do not normally travel this far north in Somerset, but I tumbled across a picture of Fuller’s Hay on the internet. This is a wood with a strange name near the village of...
Spring in the Donkey Field
I often visit the Donkey Field in village of Uphill. In late winter it is covered in snowdrops, then come the daffodils, and now bluebells, cowslips and buttercups. I think this year has been...
Park Wood
It was time to revisit Park Wood on the edge of Wells in Somerset. Celandines In the damper parts of the wood there was a carpet of yellow celandines. Bluebells But is it the...
First Light at Park Wood
First light is the best time of day, it is just a shame it comes so early at this time of year. It is worth getting up early to catch the low morning light...
Mendip Bluebells
Around Wells in Somerset is a patchwork of little woods. It is difficult to tell from the map where one ends and another begins. In spring they are full of bluebells. But if you...
GB Gruffy
I’m still catching up with May posts after a long break with a broken computer and trips away from home. GB Gruffy is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve with a very strange name. Gruffy, comes from...
