Lynchcombe Steps
The Lynchcombe nature reserve is covered in hawthorn blossom. Once again making this a magical time, here and across a lot of Somerset. The Lynchcombe nature reserve is owned and managed by the Somerset...
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Lynchcombe Steps
Late summer brings a different atmosphere to the Mendip Hills and the Lynchcombe nature reserve owned by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Sheep graze the neighbouring nature reserve of Cooks Fields that overlook the sycamore...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Catching-up on the start of summer on the Lynchcombe nature reserve. Sitting on the sides of the Mendip Hills in Somerset this is a wonderful spot to get away from it all. Bracken...
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
Back in May I visited Lynchcombe to check on the nature reserve for which I am a volunteer warden for the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It is September now and it has been another fascinating...
Perry Mead
Perry Mead Perry Mead is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve in South Somerset. Its a small but beautiful patch of grassland along the banks of the River Cary. To me there is a...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Nature Reserve Middle of May is probably my favourite time of year. The spring flowers are out and summer is just over the horizon. At Lynchcombe, following Blackthorn, the Hawthorn trees are out...
Lynchcombe Steps
Some Like It Hot The heat wave goes on and on. I really like it. But the grass that was very very long early in the year is now very very long and brown. Still...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe looked beautiful in the blue skies of late summer. Small Coppers The small coppers were still around having moved from the open grassland down into the combe. The brown argus have followed their every...
Lynchcombe Steps
As summer days are drawing in and as autumn approaches I hope we get a few more weeks of warm weather. Butterflies Another weekly butterfly transect around Lynchcombe. Every week there are new surprises. The small...
