Following My Feet

Follow Jeff Bevan across Somerset

Tagged: Butterfly

Dandelions and Buttercups - Deerleap, Nr Wells, Somerset, UK. ID JB_5912

Dandelions / Deerleap

Leap into Spring

Road side red campion is sign that spring is well underway.   In the fields the dandelions have gone to seed and the buttercups have won the race to take over. A steep narrow...

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

Lynchcombe / Update

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...

Dark Green Fritillary (Speyeria aglaja) - Blackmoor, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3081

Blackmoor / Butterflies

Dark Greens at Blackmoor

Blackmoor So I came to Blackmoor to find the dark green fritillaries.  I had never seen one and was beginning to think they were a fantasy butterfly that did not really exist.  But, as...

Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) - Collard Hill, Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID JB_8712

Butterflies / Collard Hill

Collard Hill

Who does not love small skipper butterflies.  They have so much energy. Today was my annual visit to Collard Hill near the town called Street of Somerset.  This hill is a wonderful patch of...

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene) - Priddy Mineries, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_6631

Butterflies / Priddy Mineries

Small Pearls of Priddy

Following your feet along this path on the Mendip Hills takes you to a magical spot for watching butterflies. I’m not quite sure why, but it has been years since I spent time photographing...

Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) - Bagley, Nr Wedmore, Somerset, UK. ID BR57678

Bagley / Buttercups

Back to Bagley

I came across beautiful field in Bagley while out on by bicycle looking for dandelions earlier in the year.  Cycling is a great way to see the landscape, you are high enough to peer...

Somerset / Spring

Spring Revisited

Spring time and we are still in lockdown.  So I wanted to revisit some of my spring pictures from around Somerset – starting with roe deer. This is the sort of view most of...

The Vapourer (Orgyia antiqua) catapillar - Great Breach Wood, Somerset, UK. ID DSC_2491

Butterflies / Great Breach Wood

Butterfly Glades

Great Breach Wood is a Somerset Wildlife Trust woodland in the middle of the county south of Glastonbury.  It still has lots of ash and oak trees, but today I wanted to explore its...

Spring Grassland - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_9058P

Lynchcombe / Update

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...

Duncliffe Wood - Dorset, UK. ID IMG_9167

Dorset / Duncliffe Wood

Duncliffe Wood

A bank holiday trip over the border of Somerset to Duncliffe Wood in North Dorset. Spring Morning Early spring morning in an ancient magical bluebell wood. You know that you got up early when...