Callow Hill
Callow Hill sits on the southern side of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. I started a walk in Axbridge near Cheddar, and immediately climbed the steep hill up through the woods. This is not...
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Wolf Moon
I headed up the hills to the Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserves. I had been working all day and just had to get out of the house. I arrived a bit late. My plan...
Crook Peak
Mist fills the Axe Valley looking towards Cheddar in Somerset. Half way up Crook Peak and it’s time to take some photographs. Many people have seen its peak as they drive passed on the...
Lynchcombe Steps
I am a volunteer warden for the Lynchcombe nature reserve on the Mendip Hills of Somerset. Not much happens in this Somerset Wildlife Trust during winter. So today was a quick visit to check...
Mendip Fog
Ubley Warren With Christmas weather getting worse I head to the hills in an attempt to capture the atmosphere of this other-worldly in the fog. The Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Ubley Warren reserve is scared with deep rakes and...
Lynchcombe Steps
Having a wild thyme on Lynchcombe even when the coppers arrived. Sorry, but today on the steep slopes of the combe in Lynchcombe there were some beautiful and unexpected small coppers (Lycaeena phlaeas) feeding on...
Lynchcombe Steps
Return to Lynchcombe to find large numbers of butterflies – all brown. During the summer the reserve will be covered by meadow browns, ringlets and speckled woods. Brambles The big change this week was...
South Hill
South Hill is a postage stamp size nature reserve in South Somerset managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It has open access so I made a detour on the way home from work and spent...
Draycott Walls
My return to Draycott Sleights attempting to find more Walls. Not the wall of rock below but the Wall butterfly (Lasiommata megera). It was early in the morning and after chasing a few old Chalkhill Blues...
Ebbor Gorge
Ebbor Gorge is a limestone gorge on the south facing slopes of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The main gorge is a limestone ravine. It’s a narrow steep scramble up to the top. Below,...
