About the event

The Severn Hams is a vast floodplain, stretching between Gloucester and Tewkesbury, alive with nature and home to iconic nature reserves including Coombe Hill. Reserves such as this protect precious fragments of wet grassland, wetlands and floodplain habitat that provide sanctuary for some of our most threatened species such as curlew and snipe.

But these reserves cannot thrive in isolation, as Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's Lead Land Manager, Harry Smith is well aware.

Surrounding habitats have been lost or fragmented, leaving wildlife struggling to move, feed and breed across the wider landscape. As climate change brings more extreme flooding, drought and unpredictable weather, the need to restore and reconnect nature has never been greater.

Harry's mission is to reverse this fragmentation and for the people of Gloucestershire to help nature recover in this remarkable landscape. To bring back the flora and fauna we've lost.

Join Harry as he guides us around the site and stops to enlighten us about how the site is managed, what to expect from it at this time of year and what species you can see and his hopes and plans for its future.

The walk will be a mixture of walking and sitting in the hides, observing the birds which have come to overwinter.

We'd recommend bringing your binoculars (We'll bring a few pairs too) and your wellies on this one.