Somerset Snowdrops
This is one of my favourite times of the year, because it is the time when the snowdrops signal the beginning of the end of winter. Somerset has a wealth of places to...
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Yellow
It is that time of year when yellow is everywhere. The Glastonbury Canal that flows through the middle of the RSPB Ham Wall nature reserve is lined with bright yellow Oilseed Rape. It is...
Butterflies and Snowdrops
A few weeks ago I broke by camera and lens in a accident falling several feet down a bank onto a road. So until these are fixed or replaced I using a spare camera....
Peacocks and Humming Birds
Sorry, no birds just butterflies and moths. Lynchcombe At the moment the Lynchcombe nature reserve on the Mendip Hills of Somerset is like a butterfly farm. They certainly seem to be enjoying the hot...
Ham Wall in Autumn
Just before we jump into the cold of winter I have put together some of my recent pictures taken around Loxton Marsh that do not have starlings in them. The main railway line track cuts down the...
Great Breach Wood
Today I visited the Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Great Breach Wood on the Polden Hills in the middle of Somerset. I wanted to check on the progress of autumn. How were those colours? Hawthorn Colour...
Lynchcombe Steps
Back to Lynchcombe and the reserve’s only buddleia bush stole the show. The buddleia is known as the butterfly bush and it lived up to its name as silver-washed fritillaries danced around it flowers. I’m...
Lynchcombe Steps
After the trips to Great Breach Wood it was time for Lynchcombe to demonstrate it can serve up its share of silver-washed fritillaries. It did not disappoint. Silver-washed Fritillaries The silver-washed fritillaries were still...
Lynchcombe Steps
Back up to the Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve of Lynchcombe to check on things and count the butterflies. Small Skippers This week the thistles arrived and with them the small skippers (Thymelicus sylvestnis). They have...
Lynchcombe Steps
A chance to catch-up on my weekly butterfly transect around the Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Lynchcombe nature reserve. It was a cold start to the day, a time when even the flies are trying to...
