Spring Equinox
It is spring equinox again. Time to head up to the top of Glastonbury Tor. The more observant, looking at the feature image for this post, will have realised that I took these pictures...
Tagged: Somerset Levels
Duck Duck Go
At the Somerset Wildlife Trust hide a hen harrier does a fly-by at Catcott. It spent time hunting, studying the reeds and long grass, before disappearing out of sight. Catcott Nature Reserve Next a...
Tealham Reservoir
The Tealham Reservoir From this picture it looks like a permanent lake with a walkway around the edge complete with spring daffodils. It does look very nice in the blue skies of spring. The...
Water Water Everywhere
A mute swan paddles slowly across a lake that used to be a field. This was just one of delights seen on a walk along North Chine Drove near Wedmore in Somerset. This...
Return to Queen’s Sedge Moor
Early Morning My alarm went off very early in the morning. Too early. Most mornings I pull back the curtains to check the weather. It was grey and dull, but the clouds looked interesting....
Moor Flooding
After all the rain over the last few days it was no surprise that the water that fell on the Mendip Hills was going to find its way to the moors on the Somerset...
Burrow Hill
There are several iconic hills in the Somerset Levels: Glastonbury Tor Nyland Tump Burrow Mump Burrow Hill Tor is probably from Welsh. Lump.. tump.. mump are lovely English words. Today it is the turn...
Swan Field
Across Westhay Moor on the Somerset Levels are a series of flat fields. Each field seems to have been assigned its own type of bird. One field for the cattle egrets, one for the...
The Floods from Glastonbury Tor
I’m a bit jealous of all those people posting beautiful drone images on social media. I would love to get a drone, but I find their noise really annoying. This is probably because they...
Hart Lake
With all the recent flooding I visited Splotts Moor between Glastonbury and Wells in Somerset. I pulled up near Hartlake Bridge, so to me the flooding could have restored the original Hart Lake....
