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...
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Windmill Hill to Glastonbury Tor
Running along the southern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset is the A39 main road. I’m not sure it is a real main road as it is very narrow in several places. There...
Butleigh Cross
Number 36 on the Ann Heeley Hertitage Trail is the Butleigh Cross War Memorial. Butleigh is a small village just south of Glastonbury in Somerset. As the First World War ended, it was decided...
Isle of Wedmore’s Eastern Achipelago
The Eastern Archipelago The Isle of Wedmore sits at the centre of the Somerset Levels. It is surrounded to the north and south by the shallow seas feed by the rivers Axe and Brue....
Starling Trail
My starling trail posts are normally from Somerset’s Avalon Marshes. This one is different, it is about what those huge flocks get up to during the day when they are not at their roost...
Rodney Stoke
Rodney Stoke Rodney Stoke is a small village nestled below the Mendip Hills in Somerset. It has a beautiful old church that looks out across the open countryside of the Somerset Levels. Following the...
Moor Pylons
Starlings collect on the pylons near Westhay soon after leaving their roost site at RSPB Ham Wall. Westhay Pylons I don’t think I like pylons, in nearly all my pictures I have tried hard...
Queen’s Sedge Moor
Recently I have driven down the road between Wells and Glastonbury at roughly the same time each morning. I noticed a small clump of trees in a field next to the road. So I...
Sheep at West Pennard
The wolf moon was waning and sitting above the West Pennard church and Glastonbury Tor. I wanted to photograph Glastonbury Tor at dawn with the church at West Pennard in the foreground. As it...
Godney Moor
The Somerset Levels are a beautiful part of the England countryside. It is easy to love mountains so the levels have worked hard to create their unique character. The flat lands are popular with...
