The Avalon Marshes is famous for its winter starling murmurations, but in spring and summer look out for our largest resident birds: Bittern, Marsh Harrier and Great White Egret – our ‘Big Three’ – regularly seen on our reserves they cannot fail to impress!
Nature Reserves, fascinating heritage, Glastonbury Tor, museums, attractive villages, footpaths, cycle routes, kids’ stuff and lots more. Come and explore Somerset’s Avalon Marshes.
The Avalon Marshes is a landscape of rich resources, not of coal and iron but of food, peat and water. These give the marshes their special character and have left a wonderful legacy of history and archaeology.
The Avalon Marshes is a very special place to see and enjoy wildlife whatever time of year you visit. There are four National Nature Reserves and lots of other areas teeming with wetland wildlife.
Do you know our native reptiles and amphibians? Come along and learn more about the fascinating lives of these often misunderstood creatures, with a rare chance to get up close and personal with some of them. Adults £6/RSPB adult member… Read more…
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This Bank holiday unleash your love for wildlife and join in with our family activities from nature trails to wildlife crafts. Perhaps you would like to go on the search for bugs and examine them closely under a microscope or… Read more…
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Come on a bug hunt to find out what is lurking in the undergrowth and explore the hidden world of everything that crawls, slithers and buzzes. Butterflies, beetles, worms and snails – who knows what we will find? Non RSPB… Read more…
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