Category: Stoke Camp

Small Blue (Cupido minimus) - Stoke Camp, Somerset, UK. ID 822_2803

Stoke Camp

Saturday morning and after a brief spell of early morning sunshine it was starting to rain. In this weather my butterfly transect on Lynchcombe was being put on hold. So instead I re-visited Stoke Camp...

Small Blue (Cupido minimus) - Stoke Camp, Somerset, UK. ID 822_1080

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...

Small Blue (Cupido minimus) - Stoke Camp, Somerset, UK. ID JB4_4639

Small is Beautiful

Small Blue (Cupido minimus) – Stoke Camp, Somerset, UK. ID JB4_4546. The wind never seemed to stop blowing this May. So in an attempt to find shelter I headed to Stoke Camp high on...

Green-winged orchids - Stoke Camp, Somerset, UK. ID JB4_2619

Orchids Take Camp in Somerset

Green-winged orchid at the Butterfly Conversation Stoke Camp reserve on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. On the visit we saw only one butterfly – a red admiral on nettles by the exit gate on...