Great white egret #shapwick

New £5m wetlands on Somerset Levels and Moors approved Wessex Water will begin construction in the summer on a £5m wetland between Catcott and Shapwick on the Somerset Levels and Moors

Wessex Water will begin construction this summer on £5m of new wetlands on the #Somerset Levels and Moors following this decision by Somerset Council: www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2586527... #LDReporter #Shapwick #phosphates #DutchN

Trying to spot the Starling murmuration might be difficult under today’s weather conditions! But Cleo making sure I don’t overdose on news so it’s a win either way.

#shapwick #avalonmarshes

Well worth using the North Dorset Trailway along the old #SomersetAndDorsetJtRailway from #SturminsterNewton to #Spetisbury - calling at #NTHambledonHill #HodHill then cross #CrawfordBridge to #Shapwick and #NTBadburyRings as the man says, fully of Ramparty Goodness! 😉🤩

A close-up of dried reeds with fluffy flower heads. Through the reeds, some partially obscured, are the softly blurred shapes of a grebe and five ducks. In the foreground in one corner is the extremely blurred shape of a tiny cradled sylvanian black cat baby's face. It's Reggie!

Quack quacks!

#CalicoCritters #SylvanianFamilies #シルバニアファミリー #シルバニア #Ternurines #grebe #ringneckedduck #mallard #gadwall #wetlands #shapwick #naturereserve

A landscape view of dried reeds with swathes of water and more reedbanks leading far into the distance to a line of trees. In one corner is the blurred shape of a tiny cradled sylvanian black cat baby in a blue velvet coat, taking a selfie. It's Reggie!

We walking in wet levels.
Level lands?
...
Wetlands!

Yes very wet lands

#CalicoCritters #SylvanianFamilies #シルバニアファミリー #シルバニア #Ternurines #wetlands #shapwick #somersetlevels

Four sylvanian families babies stoof with their backs to the camera on a wooden picnic table. They face the blurred shapes of two rustic buildings, one in the style of a viking hall, the other part of a whitewashed roman villa. On the left is Red Pop, a deer baby in an apple costume and red shoes, turned slightly towards the others. On the right is Oatmeal, a milk rabbit baby in a pink lychee costume and pale blue shoes, alos turned to face the others and one foot bant back as if they are just arriving in line. In the middle right is Pickle, a grey striped cat baby in a blue nursery smock and yellow shoes and in the middle left, sitting in a strawberry cake car is a tiny cradled black cat baby in a blue velvet coat. It's Reggie!

We saw houses that were old but not.
Ree-con-struc-shons.
They are from all over time all gathered here now. Maybe we see inside one day but the sun is shining so it's nice to be outside now

#CalicoCritters #SylvanianFamilies #シルバニアファミリー #シルバニア #Ternurines #historicreconstruction #shapwick

A photo of a rhyne on the somerset levels. A sky filled with wind-blown storm clouds over a flat green landscape. A dark line of trees are a thin stripe on the horizon. A single tree in the mid ground is dark against a distant, small patch of blue sky with white clouds. A larger tree in intrudes on one edge. The rhyne reflects the brooding sky and lightly scattered with lily pads and duckweed.

Today's walk.
South Drain rhyne, Shapwick

#Shapwick #naturereserve #SomersetLevels