Pen Hill
Pen Hill is the Mendip Hills red light district. The mast is nearly 300m tall and sits on the top of a 300m hill in Somerset. It is surrounded by rough grazing and dry-stone...
Tagged: Grassland
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...
Chalk Hills of Draycott
It has been very windy recently which has made it difficult to photograph butterflies. Especially those that like resting on wobbly grass. So I headed for a relatively sheltered part of Draycott Sleights to...
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...
Pearls of Ubley Warren
For a long time I have been a volunteer warden on the Mendip Hills of Somerset. On one of the Somerset Wildlife Trusts’ interpretation boards is a photo of a dark green fritillary butterfly....
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...
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...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Winter Winter on this grassland nature reserve high up on the Mendip Hills can sometimes look like this. Back in 2019, just before the pandemic, it was hard to stand during this blizzard....
Red Dawn at Lynchcombe
Its Christmas morning and it’s cloudy. These pictures were taken a couple of days ago. I hope you like them, Jeff. Happy Christmas Early in the morning a beautiful deep red sky above the...
Lynchcombe Steps
Things can be very quiet at Lynchcombe in Somerset. Lynchcombe is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve on the sunny southern slopes on the Mendip Hills. Situated down the hill from the Deerleap field...
