When I started blogging for RSPB Cymru I used to live in a house with an incredible garden. It was only when I started reading the various bird watching magazines that I realised how lucky I was to have such a huge variety of wildlife visiting it. My...

It was announced today that the Welsh Government has taken an important step towards protecting special sites for our seabirds in Wales’ coastal waters, and we'd like to say thank you (have a look at the image below.

RSPB Cymru commissioned...

Lesley Fletcher, RSPB Cymru Site Manager Woodlands reviews 'For the Birds' - the immersive night-time show that was held last week at RSPB Ynys-hir. 

 

Above photo: Neil Lambert RSPB

'For the Birds’ event was created by artists Jony Easterby...

RSPB Ynys-hir is turning back the clocks by using a pony to help give birds like the whinchat, tree pipit and yellow hammer a home on the reserve.

Tyler - a 10-year-old piebald cob - has been employed to crush bracken with a heavy roller on a steep part...

Daytime Wednesday, strange sounds from various bushes. Bird boxes on posts, but no birds, windows gently blowing from tree tops. Miles of cable hidden in the undergrowth and little lights strung around walls and fences, what does this all mean? At dusk...

Rhoi cartref i fyd natur yn eich ysgol ... sesiynau am ddim i ysgolion Caerdydd Bwriad RSPB Cymru yw sicrhau bod ysgolion Caerdydd yn fwy ‘gwyrdd’, yn adeiladu cartrefi i fywyd gwyllt ac yn dod â bioamrywiaeth yn ôl i’w...

On Saturday morning I arrived at the fantastic Chapter Art house in Canton in Cardiff, with pots, pooters and all the identification sheets I could carry. Chapter were holding a NGS Community Garden event and I had offered to identify the buzzing, crawling...

What are you doing from 2-5 October, fancy coming along to a spectacular trail of sound, light and sculpture in celebration of birds?

The event is presented by Jony Easterby, and For the Birds is a newly-devised collaboration between artists Dark Spark...

One of Wales’s iconic species the Atlantic grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is attracting wildlife tourists to Pembrokeshire with the start of the seal pupping season at RSPB’s Ramsey Island reserve.

 South west Wales-which  includes RSPB Ramsey...

Sunday morning saw my Satnav taking me on a different route to Rutland from Boston in Lincolnshire. It clearly has a sightseeing mode I was unaware of, as I never travelled the same route on any of the four journeys I made. The countryside on the way...

If you thought only children and families were catered for at RSPB Conwy – then think again! This autumn will see a new diary of events launched at the reserve catering for the more grown-up clientele!

From yoga for beginners, photography workshops...

 Until the end of September young artist, Becky Thorley-Fox is using RSPB Ynys-hir and its wildlife as the inspiration for her next portfolio of paintings.

 Becky, who is originally from Cheshire has been based at the nature reserve over the summer,...

It was my great pleasure to visit the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Waters a couple of weekends back. This was my second visit to the fair, I blogged about my first a couple of years ago. So I am still very much a newbie at the biggest festival...

Pontyberem and Bancffosfelen Primary Schools near Llangyndeyrn Mountain have given the rare “y pathew” dormouse new homes by putting up boxes for the shy animal. In partnership with Menter Cwm Gwendraeth, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and other Welsh...

And so we come to the final part of our protracted journey. I painted myself into a literal corner with this A-Z. I always knew the end of the alphabet was going to be hard to do, but I didn’t realise how hard. After a couple of weeks of head scratching...

In the last few weeks the Welsh Government has submitted its proposals to Europe for how it plans to spend it’s Rural Development Budget for the next seven years. This is a critical period for anybody interested in the natural world as this includes the...

 

A 101-year-old woman from Conwy celebrated her birthday by raising £101 through challenging visitors to solve a coded message at the RSPB Conwy reserve.

Mrs Ryland- who has been a regular visitor to the RSPB Conwy reserve for many years- raised...

 

The Welsh Government’s announcement that it planned to proceed with the M4 Relief Road south of Newport came just a matter of days after its flagship sustainable development legislation, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Bill, was formally...

A new film that has been produced and filmed by RSPB Cymru shows how restoring Wales’ extensive peat bogs can help benefit wildlife and improve the quality of our environment by reducing flood risk and helping fight climate change by locking up atmospheric...

The Welsh Government’s decision announced yesterday (Wednesday 16 July) to plough ahead with plans to build a M4 Relief road to the South of Newport (Black Route), which would cut right through the heart of the Gwent Levels is outrageous.

We are...

After a short break I bring you to penultimate part of this waltz through the alphabet of all things RSPB orientated.

W is for … WOS

… Or the Welsh Ornithological Society of which I am a proud member.

For the past couple of years I have...

After 18 years of service, RSPB Lake Vyrnwy farm manager Gwynfor Evans (known locally as Gwyn) is retiring and stepping down. Gwyn became manager of Tŷ-Llwyd Farm in Powys back in 1996, and since then he has transformed the farm into a showcase of how...

Gail Jones - a retired teacher from Machen near Caerphilly - has been honoured in the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) annual awards for volunteering more 400 days to help connect more families with nature and the environment. Gail won the Green...

The RSPB team in Cardiff were brain storming idea’s for a “Big Wild Sleepout “ event and came up with the idea of sleeping in Dan Yr Ogof caves. After discussing who they should offer this experience to, they decided that the Cwm Clydach Kites and Dippers...

So they did it, the RSPB Cwm clydach kites and dippers group camped in Cathedral Cave and here are two photos to prove it!! to sponsor them for completing their challenge please go to their JustGiving page. a blog will follow today or tomorrow.

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