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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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...
Lynchcombe in July
Lynchcombe Lynchcombe is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up on the sunny south facing ridge of the Mendip Hills. This July it has been dominated by musk thistles. The nodding heads of...
Finland
I have been out of Somerset for a couple of weeks on holiday where I discovered the wonderful Finland archipelago. A family holiday following the route of the viking sagas across Scandinavia and Russia offered some great opportunities for...
Rediscovery Trail
Back on the Discovery Trail through the Great Breach Wood in the heart of Somerset. Silver-Washed Fritillaries At this time of year you cannot miss the large silver-washed fritillary butterflies gliding through the rides...
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...
Large Blues II
The elusive large blue of Somerset. I decided to spend this week visiting Green Down as often as I could to try and experience the large blue season. Large Blues I think most of...
Lynchcombe Steps
Today on Lynchcombe was a day of sunshine and showers. Butterfly Transect Getting a few more butterflies as summer attempts to start. June weather had been so poor on the weekends so this was...
Lynchcombe Steps
I’m a volunteer warden for the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Each warden gets a reserve. Mine is Lynchcombe a south facing grassland slope on the Mendip Hills. I regularly walk the reserve looking out for...
Lynchcombe Steps
A hot day for the sheep on Lynchcombe. A walk around the butterfly transect for Butterfly Conservation, but not much to report apart from small very nice Ringlets.
