Lynchcombe Steps
The sun rises above Lynchcombe nature reserve on Easter Sunday. Easter Day at Lynchcombe Today I walked around Lynchcombe to check on the condition of the nature reserve following the recent blizzards. Sheep are...
Monthly Archive: March 2018
Middledown Snow
Catching up with the beasts from the east when snow covered Somerset. Middledown I had hoped to visit Middledown during the blizzard but it was just too far to walk and too risky to drive. But...
Bubwith Acres
Catching up with the beasts from the east when snow covered Somerset. Bubwith Acres I have rarely visited this Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve on the side of the Mendip Hills. Not sure why. Today...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Snow I am a volunteer warden at Lynchcombe for the Somerset Wildlife Trust so a visit during the snow from the east was essential. It was still snowing and blowing a gale. I...
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...
Priddy White
Mendip Snow Along Pelting Drove, the road to Priddy from Wells, is this fence. Fences are rare here as the fields are divided by beautiful dry-stone walls. But this fence is so long it...
Church Flock
Bratton Seymour near Castle Cary in Somerset sits on Bratton Hill with long views to the east. This outlook has made it a favourite of mine during the spring equinox. Today I was a...
Deerleap Snow
Singe Track Road One 4×4 had made it down the steep Deerleap road from the top of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Just around the corner the snow was 4 foot deep but they...
Wookey Hole Snow
Wookey Hole The Mini beast from the east. A couple of weeks after the Beat from the East when winter overtook spring in Somerset, along came its smaller sibling. The church of St Mary...
Spring Equinox
First a confession, I missed the Spring Equinox by a day. Exhaustion from several days trudging through snow caused me to stay in bed too long. So today, with a great weather forecast, I...
