Mendip Bluebells
Around Wells in Somerset is a patchwork of little woods. It is difficult to tell from the map where one ends and another begins. In spring they are full of bluebells. But if you...
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Spring Revisited
Spring time and we are still in lockdown. So I wanted to revisit some of my spring pictures from around Somerset – starting with roe deer. This is the sort of view most of...
Colours of May
This summer has been so busy. So I have decided the only way to catch up is to write a single post for the whole of May. The Colours of May Spring is a...
Longwood Bluebells
Longwood is the spring jewel of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The wood is bursting with colour as bluebells carpet the woodland floor. Amongst the flowers are butterflies such as this brimstone searching out pools of...
Longwood Bluebells
The Longwood bluebells are rightfully famous. It getting more difficult to photograph the bluebells each year because more and more wood if left to decompose on the the ground. But this has been a...
Early Purple Orchids
The last couple of posts have focused on the Wild Garlic displays at Longwood and Round Wood in Somerset. Both these sites also put on an excellent display of Early Purple Orchids (Orchis macula)....
Longwood
The Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve of Longwood in the Mendip Hills is one of the best woods in Britain. It is famous for its Bluebells, but Wild Garlic (Allium ursine) is just as beautiful. Each...
2012 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in...
Somerset Wildlife Calendar 2012
Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) amongst Bluebells – Longwood, UK. ID JBB_0457. This is the time of year to buy a calendar for next year. One for you, one for your mum and one for...
White Wedding
Inspired on the morning of Royal Wedding day I photographed these white British Bluebells at Longwood in Somerset. Most white bluebells are Spanish or Portuguese Bluebells (aka. Portuguese Bluebells of War – after the...
