Tagged: Field Scabious

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

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...

Early summer morning at Blackmoor - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3311H

Blackmoor

Blackmoor Blackmoor is part of the prehistoric lead mining area of the Mendip Hills in Somerset.  Like neighbouring Ubley Warren it is covered in gruffy ground – a landscape of hollows, lumps and dumps formed...