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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 10h

Rewilding life. Setting up camera traps on a new piece of land. Good times. Support us or find out more at www.somersetwildlands.org

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Protecting the Amazon matters to the whole world. But as we quite rightly feel dismayed by the possible election of new Bolsonaro, we should redouble our efforts to allow the return of our own rainforests and wetlands and other wild habitats. www.somersetwildlands.org

An aerial view of a flooded rewilding site in Somerset.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rather nice image of some orchids at one of our wildlife sites I found on my phone. Taken in 2025. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kris from Seed of Hope calling in air support at their open day over the weekend (we host their 3 Acre Wood community food forest on one of our sites).

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Always winners and losers in rewilding (or conservation). Looking at some provisional results for a couple of sites to see who is up and who is down. Will release data when we can. So far though on this location its skylarks, yellow wagtails and Cetti's warblers up, sedge warblers and rooks down.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Timely reminder that wildcats were once found in and around the Somerset Levels and we can imagine them swimming from spot to spot…

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We’re excited to let you know about our latest little bit of land for nature - Cox Mead. It’s a wonderful extension to an existing site - and one with opens all kinds of riverside opportunities! Thank you to our supporters who made this possible. www.somersetwildlands.org/news/introdu...

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New land - Cox Mead — Somerset Wildlands

We’ve acquired some more land for nature. Our new extension to our Clark Fields site presents some exciting opportunities to help rewet and rewiggle the Old Rhyne that flows through it.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of our small rewilding sites - still looking quite green in spite of the drought and the heatwaves. Somersetwildlands.org

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

☀️ The hot, dry summer is having major impacts on people, nature & water resources. 🚜 Farmers harvesting crops early 🔥 Wildfire and algal bloom risks increasing 💧 Millions of people facing restrictions on water use 📉 Low river flows in many rivers UK Water Resources Portal: ukwrp.ceh.ac.uk

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Athelney looking magical at the moment. This is its fourth summer of rewilding and the flowers, inverts and birds are bursting out. From standard sheep pasture to this in just a few years.

View in July 2022 - sheep grazing a field of grass.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Even though we’ve had no rain and very high temps for over a month our memorial trees seem to be doing surprisingly well- although how long that lasts we can’t say. Grass still green-ish in spite of everything…

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just did a session at a hot dry Valley Fest talking about rewilding, Somerset Wildlands, fires and climate change. Great stuff - thanks for having us!

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Early morning on a newly begun rewilding project in the Somerset Levels. Still pretty green despite the hot and dry. Reed warblers and stone chats calling in the background.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Early morning on a newly begun rewilding project in the Somerset Levels. Still pretty green despite the hot and dry. Reed warblers and stone chats calling in the background.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Absolutely thousands of wasp spiders in one of our new rewilding sites. In one field every other spider seems to be one.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We’re sure it goes without saying, but don’t light fires or drop cigarettes or leave litter in the countryside. The climate may prepare the fire but it’s usually a person who lights it.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We’re sure it goes without saying, but don’t light fires or drop cigarettes or leave litter in the countryside. The climate may prepare the fire but it’s usually a person who lights it.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This was all sheep fields a few years ago. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Athelney looking magical at the moment. This is its fourth summer of rewilding and the flowers, inverts and birds are bursting out. From standard sheep pasture to this in just a few years.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reposting this image from a heatwave in 2022, showing the boundary between one of our small rewilding sites - green - and a neighbouring field. It's like a rather brutal flag for the anthropocene, but it does illustrate how creating space for nature can make the land more resilient.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Meadowsweet in the breeze at about 7.30 this morning.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Athelney looking absolutely stunning on this steamy tropical morning. Flowers out, birds singing, scrub scrubbing, masses of grasshoppers and butterflies. If any photographers fancy getting down, early morning any time now is glorious. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s possible that the next few days may see the warmest ever recorded in the Somerset Levels, and possibly the warmest days since they were were formed! Rewilding is crucial to climate change - helping store carbon but also giving wildlife and ecosystems space to adapt as the climate does.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Look relaxed they said. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pretty rubbish shot (the camera seems to have slid down the pole), but nice to see this mother and her fawn on the dried out scrape at Athelney. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Collecting in an audio recorder today that looks like it has seen some bird action…. www.somersetwildlands.org

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KeninDevon @redbilledchough.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

These surveys are very encouraging. It’s great to see a small, dedicated rewilding charity like Somerset Wildlands improving species diversity in an intensely farmed region like the Somerset levels. This is a small charity, so every single member and donor is significant. Please help if you can.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Good work from our friends and fellow travellers at Heal.

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Wild Horizons @wildhorizons.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lesson in rewilding from an abandoned field in Carmarthenshire - Willow, Oak, Hawthorn, Bramble racing through the grasses. No habitat management plan, no livestock, no fences, no cost. Willow Tit singing at the bottom of the field. #EarthDay

An image of a field in Wales covered in Bramble, with Willow trees and Hawthorn. Willow Tits have a territory here. The field has been abandoned for many years.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Huge thank you to the #NationalLottery Fund for supporting our new Clark Fields rewilding project in the Somerset Levels and our partnership with Seed of Hope on their Three Acre Wood. It's going to be so great... Now where do we order a new gate from...? @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bit of fun with the Seed of Hope gang as they to develop a water delivery system (literally) for their developing food forest at 3 Acre Wood. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Dead wood! And dying wood. And dead tree stumps that have been loved with a digger and are now spiriting new shoots. Marsh harriers, deer, yellow wagtails, diverse warblers and more down on the Levels sites today. Still too early for most of the flowers and insects but they are coming.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bit of fun with the Seed of Hope gang as they to develop a water delivery system (literally) for their developing food forest at 3 Acre Wood. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Bit of scrub finally starting to emerge on a small floody site down at Godney. We’ve planted nothing - but after 10 years it’s coming in. On one hand that’s a long time, but on the timeline of nature of course it’s nothing. www.somersetwilds.org

Hawthorn tree just a couple of years old.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

And here’s Kris from our partners at Seed of Hope surveying his empire from a new composting toilet they’ve just built at 3-Acre Wood.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day everyone, a joyous Beltane and a fun-filled Floriana. Here we’re celebrating with snake mats.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

And here’s Kris from our partners at Seed of Hope surveying his empire from a new composting toilet they’ve just built at 3-Acre Wood.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day everyone, a joyous Beltane and a fun-filled Floriana. Here we’re celebrating with snake mats.

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Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

According to Google Earth the emergent scrub has formed a perfect number "2" on one of our rewilding sites, which we can only take as a sign that nature itself is going to spell out a message (or an equation). More details as we get them. www.somersetwildlands.org

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