Lovely. How did you manage to find it? In fact, harvest mice are the only mammals in the Old World (or eastern hemisphere, if you like) that has a prehensile tail. Other than them it’s only some species of New World primates.

After two hours we found one! Harvest mouse nest on the new Clark Fields site. So it’s great to know they are around, albeit in small numbers. Great scope for them to expand as the site wilds up. Thank you so much to our volunteers who came along and to Simon for leading! www.somersetwildlands.org

This would be just fantastic. Let’s make it happen. Very keen to see them return to the Somerset Levels soon too.

Need more eels in your life? Of course you do. Just under a week to go until our online talk on the Somerset Eel recovery Project. Tickets are £10 or free for members, and you can become a member from just £5 a month. Bargain. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eels-are-g...

Glorious icey day on our Athelney rewilding site. It’s really beautiful at the moment. Lapwings, snipe, many egrets, herons, starlings, field fares, stone chats, teal etc etc… just a wonderful day. Help us secure more land like this for nature, for everyone, at www.somersetwildlands.org

Glorious icey day on our Athelney rewilding site. It’s really beautiful at the moment. Lapwings, snipe, many egrets, herons, starlings, field fares, stone chats, teal etc etc… just a wonderful day. Help us secure more land like this for nature, for everyone, at www.somersetwildlands.org

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our pelicans event last night - we'll keep you posted with the carbon dating from the bones when Lucia is able to publish. In the meantime why not sign up for our next talk on EELS in January? As ever it's FREE FOR MEMBERS! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eels-are-g...

Happy New Year to everyone and particularly to all our members, supporters and well-wishers. Here’s to a wilder, more biodiverse and brighter 2026.

Happy New Year to everyone and particularly to all our members, supporters and well-wishers. Here’s to a wilder, more biodiverse and brighter 2026.

Re posting these pictures from our first big flood of the year.

Happy Winter Solstice everyone!

First day of winter floods down on Athelney. It’s important to know the future can be better. www.somersetwildlands.org

Lovely water shrew. Britain’s only venomous mammal. Having fun in the rain.

First flooding of the winter down at our Athelney rewilding site and it is absolutely glorious! www.somersetwildlands.org

🎶🎄 Christmas Time Sign up online Become a member from just £5 a time 🎵 Get invites to events, talks, volunteer activities - but most of all the knowledge that you are doing something wonderful for nature. BECOME A MEMBER AND HELP REWILD THE SOMERSET LEVELS. www.somersetwildlands.org/support

Lovely water shrew. Britain’s only venomous mammal. Having fun in the rain.

Frost morning a few days ago. Willow scrub just starting to emerge down at Athelney. www.somersetwildlands.org

Few more images of the scrapes down at Athelney. Work is completed for now.. just in time as the water levels are rising… excited to see how these pools will change in years to come.

Perhaps a picture of this stump each year for the next century is in order….

This is the stump which broke the digger, which is now fixed. The person in orange is Dave - one of our Trustees. Rewilding life is fun. www.somersetwildlands.org

This is the stump which broke the digger, which is now fixed. The person in orange is Dave - one of our Trustees. Rewilding life is fun. www.somersetwildlands.org

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our pelicans event last night - we'll keep you posted with the carbon dating from the bones when Lucia is able to publish. In the meantime why not sign up for our next talk on EELS in January? As ever it's FREE FOR MEMBERS! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eels-are-g...

Bravo to the Youngwilders. Great stuff. "the main thing is we’ve just let it breathe for a little bit. We’ve removed a lot of grazing pressure and seen what’s come up.” Music to my ears. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More pictures from a chilly Athelney yesterday. The wagtails and egrets were loving the digging. It looks brutal but actually it’s really only small part of the site…. The rest is just changing slowly as it will www.somersetwildlands.org

Early morning start to dig some modest scrapes in two fields at Athelney. It might seem from our recent posts that we do loads of digging and planting, but actually this is pretty much the first thing we’ve done like this here. After this it’s back to its own thing!

Wildcats - also known as woodcats - were once found throughout Britain including in the Somerset Levels. It would be wonderful to see them return to Devon, and hopefully one day soon to a wilder Somerset too. Restoration and rewilding, hand in hand.

Thanks to the volunteers who came to our second round of memorial tree planting at Clark Fields today. We had a wonderful morning. That’s us done for now, we’ll let the rest develop by itself. To find out more about our work and this site go to: www.somersetwildlands.org/our-land/eas...

Thanks to the volunteers who came to our second round of memorial tree planting at Clark Fields today. We had a wonderful morning. That’s us done for now, we’ll let the rest develop by itself. To find out more about our work and this site go to: www.somersetwildlands.org/our-land/eas...

Glorious day to work in rewilding! somersetwildlands.org

Woodpecker holes! Loads of them.

Woodpecker holes! Loads of them.

Glorious day to work in rewilding! somersetwildlands.org

The lost pelicans of Somerset - with PhD researcher Lucia Snyderman - online event, 26 November at 8pm. Tickets here (free for Somerset Wildlands members). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-lost-p...

The lost pelicans of Somerset - with PhD researcher Lucia Snyderman - online event, 26 November at 8pm. Tickets here (free for Somerset Wildlands members). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-lost-p...

Beautiful autumn colours in Bristol.

26 Nov, 8pm. The first of our online winter talks will see PhD researcher Lucie Snyderman talking about the lost Pelicans of Britain, Somerset and the ongoing efforts to see them returned... FREE FOR MEMBERS (check your inboxes for code). £10 for everyone else. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764195609...

26 Nov, 8pm. The first of our online winter talks will see PhD researcher Lucie Snyderman talking about the lost Pelicans of Britain, Somerset and the ongoing efforts to see them returned... FREE FOR MEMBERS (check your inboxes for code). £10 for everyone else. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764195609...

A starling murmuration over one of our recently acquired rewilding sites near Glastonbury in the Somerset Levels today, sent in by one of our members. To help us make more space for nature join or support at www.somersetwildlands.org/support

A starling murmuration over one of our recently acquired rewilding sites near Glastonbury in the Somerset Levels today, sent in by one of our members. To help us make more space for nature join or support at www.somersetwildlands.org/support

Getting as close as we dare to a hornets nest on our Clark Fields rewilding site. www.somersetwildlands.org

I appreciate I put out a lot of posts about energy and politics in general, but my main job is running a rewilding charity. And we are ace. Become a member and help rewild the Somerset Levels for everyone!

Bit more on that tree planting we were doing a couple of weeks ago. www.somersetwildlands.org/news/plantin...

Why you should become a member and help rewild the Somerset Levels. A wilder, better future - for everyone. www.somersetwildlands.org/support

Why you should become a member and help rewild the Somerset Levels. A wilder, better future - for everyone. www.somersetwildlands.org/support

Pine Martens spotted in the Mendips now. Fantastic. Let’s hope there are more! There have been very occasional sightings in the Levels for years. Looking forward to their return more widely. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

1/3 Coming up for the budding David Attenboroughs in your life. Bogtastic Free workshop event with drinks and cake... White Rocks Cottage, Simonsbath TA24 7SH next to Ashcombe Car Park Sign up here tinyurl.com/bsuan7f9 @somersetwildlands.bsky.social @ukyouthfornature.bsky.social

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We’ll be doing another small round of tree planting in a couple of months, and we’ll be asking members if they’d like to get involved. “How do I become a member?” we hear you all cry. Just sign up from as little as £5 a month and help rewild the Somerset Levels. www.somersetwildlands.org/support