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...
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Starling Trail
Not every day brings the best weather for starling watching. At RSPB Ham Wall it was dark and a bit dull. Only directly overhead could you find a patch of blue sky. Chance to...
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...
Ditcheat Mist
When I got up this morning my plan was to take photographs of the cowslips that surround the roundabout at Canard’s Grave in Shepton Mallet. However, on the way I was lead astray but...
Windmill Hill to Glastonbury Tor
Running along the southern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset is the A39 main road. I’m not sure it is a real main road as it is very narrow in several places. There...
Sea of Stars
A sea of stars is the only way I can think of to describe the vast numbers of wood anemones that carpet the floor of Park Wood. This wood sits just outside the small...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Winter Winter on this grassland nature reserve high up on the Mendip Hills can sometimes look like this. Back in 2019, just before the pandemic, it was hard to stand during this blizzard....
Off Broadway
Broadway Hill over looks the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset. It is itself overlooked by the Mendip Hills. Being a bit lower it is a great vantage point for watching the mist over the...
Mendip Mist
Excitement as I woke to thick fog. I think you would call this fog rather than mist, but the word mist sits better against the Mendips. A quick breakfast followed by a dash to...
