You may, or may not know that BirdLife International is a bird conservation organisation that works all around the world with partners such as the RSPB. On Friday, I was invited to join BirdLife and Anglesey Aluminium for a day of birding aimed at the children in our community.
BirdLife work with Rio Tinto, the owners of Anglesey Aluminium, to encourage them on a corporate and personal level to be more interested in the environment around us, particularly focussing on birds. Although it was a really wet affair, it was a really good day. The children, from local schools, were in awe of the wildlife and were happy to be outdoors and learning about birds. An event such as this could not have taken place without a keen environmentalist among the ranks. Luckily, Anglesey Aluminium have Steve on hand to arrange the events, twice a year. I was lucky enough to travel around with Steve for the day, along with Mia from BirdLife International, Aled from the local AONB, and Ken a local birding expert.
The day turned into a bit of a bird-race for us adults, as we travelled around the island we ticked off 77 species which we were pretty happy with considering the weather. The youngsters at Cemlyn were thrilled to reunite a lost Ringed Plover chick with it's parents and the kids at Penrhos Country Park spotted loads of birds and were eager to learn from us which was brilliant.
You can find out more about BirdLife International on their website http://www.birdlife.org/ or about our partnership with them on our website http://www.rspb.org.uk/international/birdlife.aspx.
Ta ta for now x