Wildife and Bird Watching in Somerset
These maps are intended as a guideline only; you must check the exact location of the reserve yourself. Wildlife Extra assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or usefulness of the information on this website.
- Barrington Court National Trust
- Black Rock Nature Reserve.
- Catcott Lows Nature Reserve
- Cheddar Gorge
- Collard Hill National Trust
- Ham Wall RSPB
- Mascall's Wood Nature Reserve
- Mount Fancy Farm Butterfly Reserve
- Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve
- Stoke Camp Butterfly Reserve
- Thurlbear Quarrylands Butterfly Reserve
- Tyntesfield House, National Trust
- West Sedgemoor RSPB
- Westhay Moor National Nature reserve
Recent Somerset news
- Great white egret nests in Britain for the first time
- Peter Hain resigns as shadowm minister to promote Severn Barrage
- 10 percent of Europe’s butterflies threatened with extinction
- UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
- Building a new home for Somerset’s bitterns
- Pigeon fanciers investigated by police for Peregrine persecution
- High-tech camera monitors eels as they set off on 3,000 mile journey
- Badger kill zones revealed
- Hundreds of birds saved in two dramatic rescues
- £120,000 boost to help save the Large Blue butterfly
- Scottish couple crowned King and Queen of wildlife friendly farming
- Bittern recovery in UK continues as numbers rise again
- Billy the bruiser rules Slimbridge cranes’ roost
- Somerset’s Avalon Marshes bittern population booming
- Crane eggs shipped from Germany to Slimbridge
More Somerset news
- See large blue butterflies this summer
- Great news for Somerset flood plains
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Swallow now a regular at nearly all West Country farms
- Great crane reintroduction update – One crane missing, others flocking
- Great time to see starling 'swarms'
- Severn Barrage abandoned
- 21 Cranes released onto the Somerset Levels
- Decade of garden surveys in the West reveals relationship between man and bird
- First record of unusual bat species in Somerset
- Britain’s bittern population is booming
- WWT Slimbridge waves goodbye to cranes destined for wild
- Little bittern now breeding in Britain
- Captive bred cranes nearly ready for release in Somerset
- UK’s Large Blue butterfly rewrites record books…again
Great white egret nests in Britain for the first time Natural England have confirmed that the great white egret - a species of heron - has nested for the first time in Britain. Whilst Wildlife Extra is always happy to hear good news, there is often double standards used as organisations decry climate change, but welcome some of its consequences.
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Severn Barrage abandonedA barrage like the one proposed between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare would not only destroy huge areas of estuary marsh and mudflats used by 69,000 birds each winter and block the migration routes of countless fish, but, as confirmed by this report, it would dramatically increase risk of flooding to residential properties.
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21 Cranes released onto the Somerset LevelsSo, the day in question finally arrived and it was time to release the cranes. Although it was a bit more blustery than we might have liked, we decided that, because of the nature of the release site and the bird's clear attachment to their grey suited parents and release site, things would be ok.
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75 starlings die in mystery crash landing Mystery surrounds the death of 75 starlings which crashed to the ground and died on a single driveway in Somerset.
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Large blue butterfly ‘open day’
On Sunday 20 June staff and volunteers will be showing visitors round taking them to the best places to see these little blue beauties during their short life.
