Common bird's-foot-trefoil
Common bird's-foot-trefoil has a vareity of names that conjure up some interesting images: 'Eggs and Bacon', for instance! Its small, yellow, slipper-like flowers can be seen in all…
Chwilio
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
Chwilio
A 30 Days Wild minibeast hunt
One of the most exciting things about 30 Days Wild is that it challenges you to look for nature everywhere. By looking more closely at the wild places around you, even if it’s just a little patch…
A final blog from this year's marine interns
Read Greg and Bron's last blog of their marine internship. What an amazing experience it has been for them, we wish them all the best for the future!
Helpful Advice when Visiting our Nature Reserves
North Wales Wildlife Trust's 35 nature reserves are all unique in their own right. They support both common and rare plants and animals that may not exist anywhere else in North Wales. Irresponsible uses of our nature reserves include dog walking off-lead, cyclists, joggers and walkers deviating from footpaths lead to huge negative impacts on these sensitive sites.
My classroom
For Issy, wildlife is all about learning. It’s her enormous outdoor classroom.
Seasonal spectacles
Our seasonal guide to magical encounters with wildlife all year round!
Dunlin
Found along the coast all year-round, the dunlin is a small sandpiper that breeds and winters in the UK. It can be seen in its upland breeding grounds in summer, when it turns brick-red above and…
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
Hermit crab
If you spot a crawling shell next time you're at the seaside, take a closer look… it might be a hermit crab!
It's grey seal pupping season
Right now grey seals / morloi llwyd (Halichoerus grypus) will be returning to haul out at sites all along our North Wales coasts for the pupping season.
The Wildlife Trusts’ 2025 marine review
A year of disasters, discoveries and determination around UK shores, with a celebration of all that we’ve achieved here in North Wales
Oak eggar
These moths can be seen flying on sunny days, but you're more likely to spot the fuzzy caterpillars crawling over paths.