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Meadow in Taunton, Somerset. Was farmland, now a floodplain and park. Events, news and wildlife from the friends of Longrun Meadow. Taking a break.

Taunton, England
Joined June 2017
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Pitfall traps set! Come and join us tomorrow to see what we've caught and help us try to identify it! #EuroBioBlitz2023
We're joining in with the #EuroBioBlitz2023 on @inaturalist with a bug hunt and a little walk - come and join us! Full details: longrunmeadow.co.uk/eurobiob…
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We're joining in with the #EuroBioBlitz2023 on @inaturalist with a bug hunt and a little walk - come and join us! Full details: longrunmeadow.co.uk/eurobiob…
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Green and white in the shade of the trees - garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, and ramsons, Allium ursinum. #WildflowerHour
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It really does seem to be a bumper cuckoo flower year. A huge patch on the north side of the willow cathedral is coming into flower now. #WildflowerHour
Cuckoo flowers popping up all over the meadow this week. #WildflowerHour
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The hedge we laid this past winter covered in patches of blackthorn flowers. #WildflowerHour
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Cuckoo flowers popping up all over the meadow this week. #WildflowerHour
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A bee-fly sort of day on the meadow today. More dotted than dark-edged, but we like them both as they are cute and sensibly named. #beefly
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A raven heading over @TheCastleSchool on Friday.
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For #WorldWildlifeDay #WWD2023 #PartnershipsForConservation we'd like to thank all the individuals and groups who have contributed to making #LongrunMeadow a home for wildlife!
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The hedge is almost finished, but! There are so many gaps in it that we've got an awful lot of planting to do. If you want to lend a hand, we'll be at w3w: guilty.cards.yarn this Saturday, 10-12 (ish). More: longrunmeadow.co.uk/final-he…
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The sun came out for our slow nature walk today: alder catkins cherry plum blossom siskin lesser celandine
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More willow! The bundles of cut willow between the #WillowCathedral and hazel coppice are free to a good home. #LongrunMeadow #Craft
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This is always good news!
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It's time for the annual maintenance on the #WillowCathedral so there is a fair bit of willow being trimmed. If you'd like a bundle of willow to build or make something, pop down to the cathedral before next Wednesday and have a chat with Stefan!
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Hello @BritishSpiders, is it possible to say who this visitor to our camera trap is? We think it looks like Neriene montana. In woodland by the river Tone in Somerset, the strap it's on is 2.5cm wide.
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Some successful fishing along the Tone today. A snack caught and eaten before the kingfisher headed downstream towards town. #Kingfisher #LongrunMeadow #wildlife
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We've got an odd number of hedgelayers this year so we'd like to train some more people up. If you'd like to have a go (no commitment required), details here: longrunmeadow.co.uk/hedgelay… Or send us a message!
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A pair of buzzards making the most of the blue sky (with crows harassing) and the first signs that spring is on the way: hazel catkins and flowers open, willow just about in flower and one of the honey bee colonies active in the sun.
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More of a lake than a meadow today, Longrun doing its floodplain job. #Taunton #Somerset #Flooding #BBCWeather
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A red kite briefly overhead this afternoon and gulls on the picnic area/lake. More rain is forecast to add to the surface water and the river on a warning for possible flooding so take care!
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