Beach clean and shore safari with Anglesey Sea Zoo
We've partnered up with the Anglesey Sea Zoo to run a series of beach cleans and shore safaris along the beautiful Menai Strait.
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
We've partnered up with the Anglesey Sea Zoo to run a series of beach cleans and shore safaris along the beautiful Menai Strait.
We've partnered up with the Anglesey Sea Zoo to run a series of beach cleans and shore safaris along the beautiful Menai Strait.
The streamlined black-throated diver is a superb swimmer and diver, but not so graceful on land! During the summer, the distinctive black patch on its throat appears, heralding the breeding season…
As its name suggests, creeping bent runs along the ground before it bends and grows upright. It is a common grass of arable land, waste ground and grasslands.
The soft, downy look of Yorkshire-fog makes it an attractive plant, even if it is considered a weed of cultivated land! It is also attractive to the caterpillars of the Small Skipper butterfly as…
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
The carnivorous lifestyle of common butterwort makes this heathland plant a fascinating species. Its leaves excrete a sticky fluid that tempts unsuspecting insects to land and become its prey.
Soft brome is a tall, annual grass of roadside verges, waste ground and meadows, and is a 'weed' of arable land. It has long, grey-green leaves and loosely clustered flower spikes.
Timothy is a grass of meadows, arable land, waste ground and roadside verges. It is also cultivated as fodder for livestock. Look for slender stems and long, cylindrical flower spikes in summer.…