A proud wildlife watcher
Dara shares his different way of looking at the world and a different way of ‘being’.
Search
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Chwilio
My dinner party
Niamh loves to feed the birds, so makes natural feeders out of pinecones and berries, to help them through the winter. She’ll tie this to a branch so that the birds can feast from it safely.
Warty venus
This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.
Parth bywyd gwyllt
O bryfed i famaliaid - fe welwch wybodaeth am fywyd anifeiliaid anhygoel y DU yma.
Summer
For wildlife watchers summer is when insect life is most abundant. It is the best time to get to know moths, dragonflies, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and all our other amazing minibeasts!
Bog bush-cricket
This scarce bush-cricket can be found on the boggy parts of heathlands.
Marsh fritillary
This beautiful butterfly is one of our rarest, now mostly restricted to the western parts of the UK.
Oyster drill
This is a predominantly subtidal species but can be found on the lowest parts of a sheltered rocky shore in summer.
Wild Wanderings
Wildlife Watcher Chloe lives by the coast in Wales and shares her favourite finds.
Downy emerald
This dazzling dragonfly can be seen darting above tree-lined ponds in certain parts of Britain.
Dingy mocha
This pretty, speckled moth is now a rare sight, found only in a few parts of southern England.
Bottlenose dolphin
The bottlenose dolphins in our waters are the biggest of their kind – they need to be able to cope with our chilly waters!