Lynchcombe Steps
Each week my walk around Lynchcombe nature reserve starts with a stroll along the Deerleap path. This is the field next to the popular car park and picnic site at the top of the...
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Babcary Meadows
Babcary is a small village deep in South Somerset those history goes back to the Domesday Book and beyond, including Wimble Toot a Bronze Age barrow. North of the village is Babcary Meadows. They...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe nature reserve enjoys the sunny south facing edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Today it was so sunny the sheep kept out of the heat under a tree. Perhaps we have reached...
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...
Lynchcombe Steps
It has been a very busy summer, and I have not been able to spend as much time up on the Lynchcombe nature reserve as I would like. The reserve is owned by the...
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...
Sycamore Tree Sun
To some the idea of loving sycamores in the UK is treason. They have only been in the country for 500 years after being introduced by people. But with ash trees being removed everywhere...
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...
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...
