Tagged: Brambles

Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7464

Lynchcombe Steps

I have been out of the country for a few weeks and have come back to rubbish weather and lots and lots of blackberries. Blackberries cover every bramble bush on the Lynchcombe nature reserve...

Snowdrops - Nunney Combe, Somerset, UK. ID JB_0762H

Nunney Snowdrops

Nunney is a village in Somerset.  It is most famous for this castle.  That is not surprising is it pretty cool. Normally, I cycle to Nunney and visit the cafe, before facing the route...

Stockhill Wood - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3580

Stockhill Wood in Winter

I have a mini-project this year to photograph the Stockhill Wood high up on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. I’m hoping to capture rays in the mist that hangs around at the top of...

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_7483

Lynchcombe in August

The height of summer on the south facing slopes of Mendip Hills in Somerset.  On the Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Lynchcombe the musk thistles are still doing well so are the small...

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...

Taking shade at Lynchcombe - Somerset, UK. ID 807_5817

Lynchcombe Steps

Fixed point photograph day.  Each year I take a series of photographs from the same spot. The series above was collated last year and shows the last 9 years.  Not surprisingly, this year we...

Small Copper (Lycaeena phlaeas) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. 823_1405

Lynchcombe Steps

Another butterfly transect on Lynchcombe and it feels like the beginning of the end of the season Lynchcombe does not do end of season butterflies and they were all looking a bit worn out....

Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID 823_0922

Lynchcombe Steps

I went away for a couple of weeks only to return and find it feels more like autumn than the summer I left behind. The light of high summer has disappeared to be replaced of the...

Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID 823_0386

Lynchcombe Steps

I have been doing the Lynchcombe butterfly transect a lot this year.  This partly due to the good summer weather this year.  In the passed the weather has been so bad that it has...

Sunset at Waltons Heath - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK. ID 808_4515

Waltons Heath

The Waltons Heath on the RSPB Ham Wall nature reserve in Somerset is not just about starlings. It is also a beautiful landscape. Brambles There is a saying that when an outdoor photographer has...