After extensive refurbishment Somerset Crafts has re-opened at the Avalon Marshes Centre. Come and see the arts and crafts of the Avalon Marshes
Spring is almost here, the days are longer and the trees are budding. Why not dust off your walking boots, pick up one of our walks leaflets and explore the Avalon Marshes and adjoining “hills”?
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.
Discover the Science of Steart on a trip out with staff from the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust helping to survey for invertebrates on the mudflats of Steart Marshes. You will learn about this unique flood mitigation scheme that harnesses natural… Read more…
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Join us on International Dawn Chorus Day to listen to the incredible sounds of the song birds at Ham Wall in all of their spring glory. If we are lucky we may get a glimpse of a cuckoo or hear… Read more…
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Join local artists Jackie Curtis and Becky Hughes for a walk and sketch through RSPB Ham Wall as part of Somerset Festival of Nature. Learn how to capture the drama and spirit of this evocative landscape and the wildlife that… Read more…
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