We're excited that Anna Jones, author, radio presenter and former BBC One Countryfile producer is coming to the Quantocks in May to talk about her book 'Divide - the relationship crisis between town and country'
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A painting from the 1860s by one of the artists who lodged Halsway Manor The Wood Gatherers, John William North. Unmistakably Quantockian

A few photos from my walk around the Quantock Hills yesterday.

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Marvelous #mosses - Heath Star-moss (Campylopus introflexus) looking even more starry than usual on a damp afternoon in the Quantock Hills Friends of the Quantocks Somerset Wildlife Trust BBSBryology

Red deer hind high on the Quantock Hills National Landscape in the February sunshine earlier this week. #somerset

Deep in the Quantock Hills in Somerset lies Holford Combe - the streamside is rich in #mosses & liverworts and is home to the tiny Tunbridge Filmy-fern (Hymenophyllum tunbrigense) #NatureoftheQuantocks Friends of the Quantocks Somerset Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland BBSBryology

A beautiful few hours on the #QuantockHills today. Not a breath or wind or overly busy in the morning.

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Got 3 minutes to spare?
Grab a cuppa and watch our short video explaining what we have been doing all year! 👇
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Is there such a thing as the Sussex Everglades?
Charlie Burrell takes us splashing through what was a low-yielding wheat field in 2001, but is now a high-yielding wetland for biodiversity where we’ve found GC newt, breeding little grebes, scarce chaser & pond water-crowfoot 💦

Our 4th guiding principle : Increase Habitat Diversity At Every Level

eg, generally, more biodiversity will be supported by:
Mosaics of habitat in close proximity, like below
A more diverse cropping rotation
Grasslands with a wide mix of sward heights

Thank you so very much, Polly.

Fabulous #fungi - brilliant day out yesterday in deepest Somerset searching for grassland fungi and finding the star of the show, the rare Jubilee Waxcap (Gliophorus reginae), along with many other waxcap species Friends of the Quantocks Quantock Hills National Landscape Somerset Wildlife Trust

And found on the Quantocks. We might be heading into winter but these wonderful hills have great wildlife sightings throughout the year.

It's the last weekend of November! What wildlife are you hoping to see?

A distance view of a Short eared owl at the known Gloucestershire site this late afternoon,plenty of Corvids mobbing um ,I had to have a distance pitch as was rammed up there along the main drag .

Sand Point/Middle Hope AM: 1 Goosander NE, 965 Woodpigeon, 22 Lapwing, 20 Skylark, 3 Chiffs, 10 Goldcrest, 910 Starling, 13 S. Thrush, 14 Redwing, 32 Fieldfare, 5 Stonechat, 1 Water Pipit, 42 Chaffinch, 2 Brambling, 1 Redpoll, 15 Siskin+1 Yellowhammer. BristolBirding

A cold and misty start to the day here in Glastonbury. Looking out over the Somerset levels on the first proper frost of the year with the mist forming was just magical.

A new dawn

Wow!