West Coker and Hardington Moor
When you Google images for a town or village the first few pages of results are for properties. If you are lucky a few pictures from the local newspaper will find their way into...
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Spring Flowers on Yarley Hill
Henton sits on the road between Wells and Wedmore. The village nestles below Yarley Hill on the edge of the valley on the River Axe in the heart of Somerset in England. Climbing up...
Get ready for April
Despite the endless rain of this March and the flooding across the Somerset Levels. We have been promised that spring is on its way. Spring is may peoples favourite season as flowers and butterflies...
Lynchcombe Steps
It was time to spend some quality time on the Lynchcombe nature reserve on the edge of the Mendip Hills. As a volunteer warden I was checking on the condition of the reserve for...
Cold mornings at Middledown
With the forecast for some cold mornings. If it was going to be cold it may as well be very cold, to I headed out high up on the Mendip plateau. On my first...
Shepton’s Cowslips
I finally made it to Cannards Grave roundabout in Shepton Mallet. This town in the middle of Somerset in the UK has a roundabout that is famous for its concrete sheep. However, this roundabout...
Orchids and Cowslips at UpHill
Six o’clock in the morning, time for for a quick walk to photograph the flowers growing around the Uphill nature reserves in North Somerset. The sun had only just appeared above the horizon behind...
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...
GB Gruffy
I’m still catching up with May posts after a long break with a broken computer and trips away from home. GB Gruffy is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve with a very strange name. Gruffy, comes from...
Lynchcombe Steps
I’m still catching up with posts after a long break with a broken computer and trips away from home. Lynchcombe Nature Reserve I was back up the Mendip Hills to check on the Lynchcombe...
