Starling Trail
I was recently driving passed Wells on the bypass near Morrisons when a large flock of starlings flew overhead. They were on their way to the roost at RSPB Ham Walls. I have seen...
Tagged: Mendips
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...
December Mist
Judging from the hoar frost on Somerset’s Mendip Hills winter is on its way. Sadly, I missed the best of the frost. The ice crystals were already raining down from the trees. So I...
Lynchcombe Steps
It has been a quiet time up on the Lynchcombe nature reserve in the Mendip Hills of Somerset. We have a lot of showers recently. The upside of which has been some wonderful rainbows....
East Harptree Woods
East Harptree Wood This wood is a small woodland situated on the northern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset. It is mainly conifers but in the wood’s centre there are some more interesting...
Lynchcombe Steps
Before an update on the Lynchcombe nature reserve. This autumn saw the return of Somerset Art Weeks with the theme of Sanctuary. Landing in the Deerleap picnic site was the Pollinator Sanctuary by lear artist...
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...
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...
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....
