It’s our AGM next week - Monday 20th October. Bit different this year as minimal formal business followed by talks on Wildlife Gardening. And cake 🍰 All welcome

Very grateful to Vale Local Nature Partnership for mechanical help to finish removing hay from meadow area of The Common. Thanks to everyone involved in this project, especially the Dinas Powys Community Council, all our volunteers and Vale Local Nature Partnership . #valelnp #dinaspowys

Plant survey and litter pick at Castle Drive yesterday. Lots of variety of flowers (& litter 😡😂) @valelnp.bsky.social

In Dinas Powys! Anyone else seen lots of butterflies this year?

Get the date in your Calendar. Lots of fun ways to enjoy this fabulous meadow right in the heart of our village. This year we will be offering a lovely collaborative art project, bug hunting, flower identifying and opening our moth trap to see our the night time visitors. All welcome and its FREE.

And its free! All welcome

🐝Become a Meadow Monitor! Join a community of volunteers working to conserve wildflower meadows in the Vale Recieve free online and in-person training in partnership with @plantlifeuk.bsky.social to help survey and monitor green spaces for biodiversity Contact: [email protected]

🌼Webinar: Introduction to species-rich grasslands and their plants Thursday 26 June, 18:30 Join Vale LNP in partnership with @plantlifeuk.bsky.social to explore the vital role of species-rich grasslands in supporting biodiversity in our free online webinar Book: www.valenature.org/event-detail...

📣Swift Talk & Walk – Tue 10 June, 7–9PM 📣 Join @valelnp.bsky.social and Edward Mayer from Swift Conservation for a talk at Romilly Bowls Club & guided walk to the new Swift Tower at the Knap. Learn how to help these amazing birds! Book your Free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swift-talk...

Even on a wet morning there are bumblebees enjoying our patch at Dinas Powys station. Thanks to John who looks after this for us.

The Common. Flowers and grasses left to grow long on the meadow area, giving nature space to do what it does best.

Lots of people in Dinas pick up litter. If you want to get involved pop along to the Library Plant sale and Fun Day to chat with Elin from Keep Wales Tidy. Either borrow kit from the new Hub at the Library or become a champion and be given kit. Pop along to chat over options.

Also our friends at GPG in Penarth are holding this event on Monday evening and we’ll be there.

Bird walk this Sunday 4pm, meet Murchfield Community Centre

It’s our annual Spring Flower walk tomorrow and looks like a lovely day for it. All details in image.

We have sown our pollinator friendly mix at Brookside. Many thanks to Barry, Helen, Hilary and Clare for their hard work. We were hoping it was just going to be a matter of sprinkling seeds but there were quite a lot of weeds to remove first.

Have you noticed all the birdsong now its spring? Do you want to know how to identify birds by their call as well as their appearance? Pop the date in your calendar.

LOOKING FOR LOCALS! #Barry #Dinas #Wenvoe #Sully #Cardiff We’ll soon be offering up home grown plants, in #peatfree compost and recycled pots.We have an ‘available plants’ list - you make your order. And then Alex (13) and Tomas(11) get it ready for you to collect. No set price, pay what you think!

Appreciating our natural world. Where is your favourite place to connect to nature? This viewpoint in Park Wood looks down over the tree canopy in Cwm George

Grey Herons are in decline. It’s important we know where they breed. We know of only 5 heronries in our region. Are there others out there we don’t know about? This spring, when you’re out birding, please keep an eye out for heronries and message us if you find one. Thanks 🙏

Easy ways to help pollinating insects: 🌻 grow nectar-rich flowers 🌱 grow caterpillar food plants ☠️ avoid pesticides and weedkillers 🐞 don’t be too tidy! More: bit.ly/4ae2zG1 #nature #biodiversity

Members of Wild about Nature Dinas Powys can borrow our moth trap if you want to survey the hidden wildlife near you.

Thanks to all who helped with our litter pick today. 25 people cleared 23 bags of litter from the Ash Path and car park. Remember Dinas Powys library is now a litter picking hub if you want to borrow kit & bags.

Care about Dinas? Hate litter? Come and help clear the Ash Path and surrounding area. Tomorrow (Sun 9th) 2pm. Meeting in Tesco car park. All welcome. fb.me/e/2l8efK1TJ

Love Dinas Powys? Hate Litter? Join us next Sunday for a litter pick along the Ash Path. Meet Tesco carpark 2pm. All Welcome.

Poo on The Common, and for a change its not dog! But is it rabbit or muntjac deer?

Confused by your garden #bird quirky behaviour🐦? Want to keep track of your garden visitors and never miss a species on your weekly list? 🦊 Sign up for the GBW newsletter!📩 Get the latest on urban ecology, expert tips, species ID guides, courses and local events. #CitizenScience bit.ly/GBWeNews

🦇 Start thinking about how you can turn your garden into a bat haven, so it's ready for bats when they start waking up in spring! After months of hibernation they will need all the food they can get. Find out more here: https://buff.ly/2HkKSuq

Try to leave deadwood in your garden as much as possible. It’s a valuable habitat for fungi, invertebrates and more.

Noticed the smell first and then realised the wild garlic is starting to sprout.

#RecordOfTheWeek today is our first Frog spawn (Rana temporaria) record of the year, spotted in Dinas Powys by Hilary May. Great to see further #SignsOfSpring appearing as we finally say bye to January! Many thanks for the record & photo, submitted via LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app

Two more trees in public space in Dinas Powys thanks to volunteers who planted them and people who donated the trees. Thanks to Vale council for letting us plant them and the local resident who will look after them.

How many of these are you going to mark off for your #BigGardenBirdwatch?

First frogspawn in Dinas Powys?

A Great Tit checking out our nest box on Dinas Powys library. Last year used by Blue Tits who successfully fledged 5 young.

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳