STEART MARSHES




The grassland and shingle breakwater at Steart Marshes in Somerset is the home of breeding oyster catchers and ringed plovers. In 2012 and again in 2015 avocet also bred within this protected coastal area in the south-east corner of the Bristol Channel.

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