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...
Monthly Archive: August 2018
Lynchcombe Steps
I got back from holiday climbing mountains in the Lake District so where better to go than the steep Lynchcombe nature reserve on the edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Lynchcombe Lots of...
Buff-Tip Caterpillars
A trip away from Somerset to go walking and cycling in the Lake District. Lots of mountains to climb and occasional breaks in the cloud. The big surprise for me was when I discovered...
Wells Cathedral High Parts Tour
Wells is the smallest city in Somerset and the whole of England. Its cathedral is one of the best anywhere. And now you can take a tour of the its high parts. May be...
Netherclay
Over the years I have visited several nature reserves on the lookout for the elusive brown hairstreak butterfly. I have seen them (once) before but never got a picture. That was on a visit...
Lynchcombe Steps
Over the years I have seen lots of dragonflies on Lynchcombe. This week was prime dragonfly season on this Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve. Sheep But as you climb over the stile into the reserve...
Lynchcombe Steps
After a couple of months of butterflies its time for the dragonflies to dominate the Lynchcombe nature reserve. Migrant Hawkers It been about 5 years since there has been such large numbers of migrant...
Lynchcombe Steps
Now the schools have broken up for the summer heat wave is coming to an end. But it was still a beautiful, cooler, day up in the Mendip Hills at Lynchcombe. The Wall At...
Lamyat Summer Dawn
Lamyat Lamyat is small parish in the middle of Somerset north of the town of Castle Cary. At the west end the fields are flat while the east is dominated by the 199m high Creech Hill....
