Jump into June
Summer Times I love the colours of autumn, the flowers of spring, and winter snow – but the warmth of summer is very hard to beat. Hawthorn blooms across the Mendip Hills. Oxeye daisies...
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Lynchcombe Steps
I have been out of the country for a few weeks and have come back to rubbish weather and lots and lots of blackberries. Blackberries cover every bramble bush on the Lynchcombe nature reserve...
Lynchcombe Steps
It has been a very busy summer, and I have not been able to spend as much time up on the Lynchcombe nature reserve as I would like. The reserve is owned by the...
Oxeye Daises
To many countries the oxeye daisy is an invasive species that needs to be controlled. But luckily for us, in the UK it is a native species that lives happily around our towns and...
Somerset Year 2022
As is often the case my photograph year started with a sunrise at RSPB Ham Wall. Ham Wall Visits to RSPB Ham Wall to watch the starling murmurations tops and tails each year. This...
Lynchcombe Steps
Late summer brings a different atmosphere to the Mendip Hills and the Lynchcombe nature reserve owned by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Sheep graze the neighbouring nature reserve of Cooks Fields that overlook the sycamore...
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...
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 Steps
Lynchcombe Catching-up on the start of summer on the Lynchcombe nature reserve. Sitting on the sides of the Mendip Hills in Somerset this is a wonderful spot to get away from it all. Bracken...
Lynchcombe Gate
Autumn Equinox I normally head up Glastonbury Tor to welcome the equinox with lots of other people. But this autumn I wanted a simpler evening and so I drove up to Lynchcombe on the...
