Nearly 2 hrs it took with secateurs, bolt cutters and scissors to patiently remove the thick barbed wire which was wrapped around and embedded in her, together with the holly. Hill sheep have a tough life 😕

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On Thursday, I’ll be voting for the first time and I’m very much looking forward to it.

Young people - your vote does matter. Vote this Thursday and don’t forget your photo ID!

List of accepted forms of photo ID: electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

#LocalElections

Just picked a live tick off the dog and dropped it SOMEWHERE IN THE HOUSE on the way to the tick abattoir. FECK. It’s probably in my hair 😭 #countryliving

Good podcast about stag hunting and the heartbreaking kill at the Devon and Somerset Staghounds closing meet. Starting 28 minutes in open.spotify.com/episode/4z3a1c…

“The Gentle Jackdaw” grooming parlour. Happens every year, and I’m always amazed how delicate these #corvids are with their patient clients.

Jamie Blackett Scribehound So you're just going to openly brag about breaking the law now? You can only flush to guns for culling, not chase a stag 18 miles to collapse.

Listening to a #stockdove this morning amongst the other birdsong. New one for the garden list and great to have an amber listed bird. Photo from BTO website.

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's 'The Watcher'... a Barn Owl on the Somerset Levels. 😍🦉
Thank you very much! 😊🐦

Love this story of hope

#wildgarlic looking absolutely gorgeous out there Woodland Trust🌳. I have finally managed to get one plant to grow in my nearby woodland garden 😂. In it for the long run. My bluebells, however, never fail me

Not every post on here is depressing 😂

eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-an… should be interesting Friends of the Quantocks Quantock Hills National Landscape

We would like to re-launch our ‘sponsor an event’ programme for the ESAA Track and Field Championships in 2024. We continue to be massively grateful for the generous financial support the association receives from England Athletics, but we are once again faced with rising costs…

Poor poor mamma. Shepherd notified.Quantock Hills National Landscape

Countryside bullies. Am standing listening to the wonderful cuckoos when two hunt riders go past and call me “another one of them cunts”. How not to endear yourself to the locals, #quantockstaghounds . Try a hobby that doesn’t mean killing wildlife 🤬. North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs

Seen my first cuckoo of the year Quantock Hills National Landscape

First #damselfly of the year in my garden Somerset Wildlife Trust

A #wasp but not as you know them. Saw a flash of black and yellow floating past and thought it was an early spotted longhorn beetle but it turned out to be something else! So encouraging when you get variety in your own back yard. Somerset Wildlife Trust

Another one of my cool pond residents: the whopper #greatdivingbeetle Pond Dip🐸 Somerset Wildlife Trust