Wood Anemonies in Park Wood
Park wood is a small patch of woodland near Wells in Somerset, England. It is small but very beautiful when the Wood Anemones and later the Bluebells come out. Wood Anemones are great to...
Monthly Archive: March 2014
Rainbow in Wells
The recent unsettled weather, with its mixture of showers and sunshine, has brought out a batch of rainbows. However, they are hard to predict and tend to be found by accident. Today was such a...
Mendip Mist
Across the Mendip Hills are small groups of Beech Trees. These often provide a landmark in the landscape to drivers passing through the lanes. Today the drivers needed to slow down as the hills...
Lynchcombe Steps
My favourite time to visit Lynchcombe is around sunset. First a walk around the reserve followed by a rest at the top waiting for sunset. Today there was a lot of mist but that...
Water ladybirds escape the flood
Water Ladybirds (Anisosticta punctuate) on the entrance gate posts to RSPB Greylake nature reserve on the Somerset Levels. Normally these ladybird spend winter between leaves and in stems of reeds and grass tussocks. I assume as much...
Somerset Floods
The floods across the Somerset Levels have been hitting the news. I needed to take an opportunity in a break from work to see what had happened first hand.
Lynchcombe Steps
The day after the worst storms for 17 years. I visited Lynchcombe to assess the damage and report it to the Somerset Wildlife Trust.
Primroses
On my way to Lynchcombe there is a spot near the Deerleap field that is great for primroses. It is getting harder and harder to photograph flowers near woodland as more wood is left to...
