Wildlife Watch Member Flies High with Kestrel Award.
Elliott Jones, a regular Wildlife Watch member at the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Cilgerran, has just completed his Kestrel Award after more than a year’s work and activities.
Elliott Jones, a regular Wildlife Watch member at the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Cilgerran, has just completed his Kestrel Award after more than a year’s work and activities.
This strange furry creature often found washed ashore after storms is actually a kind of worm!
A funny little fellow in his glossy black dinner jacket and crisp white bib, the puffin is instantly recognisable from its brightly coloured parrot-like bill. Puffins use their colourful bill to…
The reserve comprises an area of flower-rich unimproved grassland including numerous flushes which are slightly base rich. An area of alluvial marsh borders the Nant Ty’n-y-swydd, and there is a…
These colourful little fish are a delight for snorkellers or shallow water divers to photograph, rarely being scared off by their presence!
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
The common octopus is a highly intelligent, active predator. It even has a secret weapon - special glands produce a venom that it uses to incapacitate its prey!
Our smallest breeding seabird, the storm petrel is barely larger than a house martin! They mostly nest among rocks or in burrows on small offshore islands.
Often confused with the larger but similarly shaped lion’s mane jellyfish, the blue jellyfish can be colourless when young and develop a striking blue-purple bell as it matures.
The pretty-in-purple Pasqueflower is now a rare plant in the UK, restricted to just a few chalk and limestone grasslands. Steeped in legend, it flowers at Easter, so is known as the 'anemone…
The ptarmigan is a master of disguise - matching its Highland surroundings perfectly by turning snow-white in winter and rock-grey in summer. It is confined to the mountains of Scotland, so is…
A small colourful sea slug that can be found grazing on sea mats on the rocky shore and beyond the low water mark.