Spring has sprung, seabirds are back on Skomer & our webcams are live for another season! The cliffs are currently covered in Guillemots & Razorbills, and North Haven beach is full of seals. Now we watch and wait for the Puffins to return! Watch now: champ.ly/adt0i0DH @skomerisland.bsky.social

Visited western edge of Kenfig NNR today. Dozens of tiny Hornungia petraea, Hutchinsia in flower (my thumb shows how tiny this plant is), my first Glow-worm larvae of the year & an impressive Fox Moth larvae. Skylarks, Lapwings & 2 Hares extra bonuses #glamorganbotany #kenfig #ukglowworm

A few days of sun is all nature needs to get going. Flowering Anemone nemorosa, Wood anemone and very active Frog tadpoles spotted yesterday.

Happy #WorldBookDay 📚 Discover the tiny heroes of our planet with How to Be a Ladybird & How to Be a Dragonfly - fun, fact-filled adventures for young readers see the world through compound eyes. Coming soon, get ready to roll into the wonderful world of How to Be a Dung Beetle 💩

Butterflies were out in the sunshine yesterday at Penllergaer - a Brimstone flitted past and this Comma obligingly did some sunbathing on dead wood. #Butterflies #Wales #Spring

Great news! From today the Eurasian #beaver is a protected species & recognised as a native species in Wales! 💚 Thank you @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social & @joycewatson.org.uk, our Species Champion for Beavers, for helping this day to become a reality! 🎉 @beaverafanc.bsky.social bit.ly/4uecbMa

Big thanks to Liam Olds of Glo i Natur - Coal to Nature - for a fascinating talk proving you don’t have to go diving or exploring remote mountains to find species new to science. Some have been found on heaps of old coal spoil in S Wales where nature has thrived creating islands of biodiversity!

#WorldWildlifeDay today! Tell us yr favourite wildlife species! Join the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales to support nature conservation + get advice on how you can help wildlife in your backyard! You're very welcome to support our Swansea local group events whether a member or not 💚 #WTSWW

Liam Olds, founder of Glo i Natur CIC, will be talking about these incredible sites this evening at St Hilary's Church Community Hall, Killay, Swansea. You're welcome to join us at 7.30pm

📣 Featured in Ouest-France! 🇫🇷 Our work at Cwm Tips (Rhondda Cynon Taf) is highlighted in one of France’s biggest papers — showing how wildlife is reclaiming this former coal tip. 🌍 Post-industrial nature recovery matters. 🔗 www.ouest-france.fr/leditionduso... #CoalToNature #CwmTips

Celebrating dragons for St. David’s Day🏴 Just like the legend of Y Ddraig Goch, the dragon who emerged from a lake into battle, dragonflies also start their lives in water. In fact, these impressive insects spend most of their lives underwater - up to 5 years in some species! 📸 Rachel Scopes

Join us tomorrow for this special talk by entomologist and coal spoil nature champion Liam Olds!

A local Red Kite today

When deadwood is not just dead wood 🪵 The Dead Wood Society emphasizes the importance of dead and decaying wood for wildlife, supporting countless invertebrates and fungi. Read the blog: https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/will-masefield/when-deadwood-not-just-dead-wood

Check out this dung beetle diagram by Dilly Williams. Conservation grazing helps wildlife by providing dung, which dung beetles use for food and breeding. These beetles are also eaten by tawny owls and bats, especially as moth numbers drop.

Did you know that beavers have orange teeth? 🦫 And no, it’s not because they don’t brush them! The enamel in their teeth actually contains iron which they get from their food and this gives them the strength to gnaw through wood. 🪵 Learn more 👉 www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/.../mammals/beaver

The localised wolf spider Alopecosa barbipes - or Easter Fox-spider - at Margam Mine yesterday. A rather typical species of coal spoil sites in South Wales. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Saw my first butterflies (Brimstone) and bees of the year yesterday, including this male Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes) at Margam Mine, near Bridgend.

🎤 Talk reminder! Discover the surprising wildlife of South Wales’ coal spoil sites — from the “Maerdy Monster” to the Pyrenean Semi-slug, plus fungi, plants, birds & more. 🎟️ Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coal-spoil... #CoalToNature #NatureWalk #Swansea #Cymru #Wales #Nature #Wildlife

The SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for February is Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus)! Can you spot their distinctive ant hills in local farms, parks or your garden? See if you can fill in the gaps in our maps, find more info, distribution maps and ID tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/species-otm/...

#RecordOfTheWeek today is a lovely Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) spotted at Worm's Head, Gower by Martin Bell. Many thanks for the record and photo, submitted via the LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app.

Work to restore rainforests has begun at Trellwyn Fach! 🚜 Diggers are on site creating a new track to provide access for people to explore! 🌳 50,000 native trees are being planted this spring! 📋 Cutting-edge rainforest research is underway! Read more: champ.ly/7clho_kx 📸 Ben Porter

Once seen as scars on the landscape, South Wales' coal spoil sites have become rich wildlife habitats yielding some incredible discoveries! Join us for a fascinating talk by entomologist Liam Olds who has been studying the wildlife of these sites for +10 years. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coal-spoil...

Exhausted - and in some cases dead - Atlantic puffins have been washing up around the coastline recently. This surge follows recent storms which have left puffins weak, underweight and unable to feed after being battered by the weather.

🦡 A special visitor caught on camera at one of Rhondda Cynon Taf’s coal tips 🦡 This fantastic footage of a #Badger was captured by our volunteer Catrin using a #cameratrap - a brilliant reminder of just how important these overlooked places are for #wildlife. #Wales #RhonddaCynonTaf #Nature

Fancy some SEWBReC stats? Our 2024/25 Annual report is now available to read online: online.fliphtml5.com/zpyru/eoyg/#...

Join our Director @liamolds.bsky.social for what will be a fascinating talk on the biodiversity of coal spoil sites, including the work of @gloinatur.bsky.social ⬇️

Spring is on its way, and the bird nesting season will start soon! Most bird species nest between March and August so it's time to plan any works that may affect hedges, trees or woodlands before the birds nest! 💚 Find more ways to help the birds 👉 northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/homes-wildlife

Once seen as scars on the landscape, South Wales' coal spoil sites have become rich wildlife habitats yielding some incredible discoveries! Join us for a fascinating talk by entomologist Liam Olds who has been studying the wildlife of these sites for +10 years. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coal-spoil...

A near-capacity audience of 60+ enjoyed Josh Greatorex-Davies' brilliant talk yesterday about common swifts and the work of the Save Swansea's Swifts Group. Our Red-Listed summer visitors need more support to find suitable nesting sites - which the group can provide! More here shorturl.at/bHY49

Do whales have culturally-marked societies? Do translocated big-horn sheep learn from each other how to best use their new habitat? Join us on February 18th at 2pm with Prof. Hal Whitehead, biologist and researcher. Sign up for this free webinar at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv... #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Please download these signs, share them on social media and put them up near you to protect your local wintering birds. If you would like A4, laminated copies of these signs please e-mail [email protected], all you need to do is donate for postage. www.curlewaction.org/wintering-wa...

Frogspawn - 15 metres of it plus some! 😄 🐸💚💚🐸 #Swansea

By digging up the earth, moles help make the soil healthier by aerating it. A super simple way to help monitor moles is by adding a record to Cofnod if you spot a molehill in Wales 💚 www.cofnod.org.uk

Batman hoverfly (with the bat symbol on its thorax). #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies

First walk around the pools of Swansea Vale in several months today delivered 3 Goosander (1M, 2F) and a personal site record high of 10 Tufted Duck. Nice to see and hear plenty of Siskins about too. #birdingWales #birdsSeenIn2026

For #wildflowerhour this week it’s Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna. Local names include smallwort, brighteye, pilewort, cheesecups and cream and butter-

Crymlyn also has Marpissa radiata (Reed Jumping Spider) - so 2 out of the 4 is fantastic 👍

We're very fortunate to have rare Fen Raft Spiders under the watchful eye of Natur am Byth at Crymlyn Bog, just outside Swansea 💚

💧🌿 Today we’re celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay. Globally, around 87% of wetlands have been lost in the last 300 years. In the UK, we’ve lost around 90% in just the last century. Wetlands matter more than ever. (1/3)

Trawling through old photos and found this of Scytodes thoracica, the spitting spider, from my old flat in Brynmill. In 2020 this was the western-most record in Wales on inaturalist, but someone found one two roads over last year. I’m further west now, I need to find another to get my pride back!

Lovely lichens 💚 Winter is a great time for spotting lichen. They're less hidden by foliage and increased rainfall rehydrates them, giving many species of lichen a brighter and more colourful appearance. 📷 Ben Porter, Les Binns, Niall Benvie/2020VISION

The Loughor Wildfowl Walk yesterday was a story of rain, rainbows and treats including a visiting marsh harrier and a soundtrack provided by curlews and oystercatchers 💙 We had a fascinating walk along the seawall led by RSPB volunteer Russell Evans, recording at least 41 species of birds.

Last #BigGardenBirdwatch opportunity on Sunday. Hopefully, better weather too!

Great Grey Shrike at Fillingham, Lincs right now. It was reported as singing this morning, but I wasn't prepared for hovering 🩶 Speechless! @lincsbirding.bsky.social #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding

Due to a cancellation there are now two places available for Sunday's walk. Book asap if you'd like to join us!

And so, with one faltering step, it begins - the unstoppable riot of spring

The countdown is on and our final ‘10 birds’ guide is here... Spotting these on your patch? Now that’s lucky! 😍 Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... #BigGardenBirdwatch