13/07/2026
Photos from the final week of building our reclaimed-material wildlife tower at Honeygar in the Somerset Levels.
The roof and wall cladding are now complete, using timber salvaged from an old tractor-storage barn. Corrugated metal sheeting removed from the same barn forms the outer roof, with oversailing eaves and walls facing into the prevailing wind to provide additional shelter around the wildlife entrances.
The tower contains a range of habitats for different species. On the south side, an insulated warm bat box includes internal fins for bats to climb and roost. A cooler bat box sits on the north side, while little owl, kestrel and barn owl boxes are fitted within the upper interior.
Historically, much of the Somerset Levels would have been underwater before centuries of land management, river diversions and the digging of reens created farmland. The area surrounding the tower still floods each year, so beneath it we have created a raised paved platform with heaps of loose stone and soil, providing sheltered habitat for species such as newts, slow worms, small mammals and invertebrates.
A huge thank you to the construction team, who stuck it out through the last two UK heatwaves to complete the build.
We are now looking forward to seeing who decides to move in.
Photography by . Structural Engineering by Momentum Structural Engineers
