Welcome to the Bwlchcoediog blog!

Welcome!

This blog is my attempt to keep you updated with what's happening in the nature reserve as well as any bunkhouse news. If you have visited recently please feel free to leave comments on any wildlife you may have seen (preferably not the human variety!)

Well it's a busy time of year at Bwlchcoediog Nature Reserve. The pied flycatchers have started to arrive with a male pied flycatcher here every day this week checking out our nestboxes. This may take him a while as we have added quite a few nestboxes this year and now have 57 of them on the reserve. Other summer visitors are arriving too. I've seen a male redstart here this week and am listening to a chiff chaff as I type. Hopefully the redstarts will choose somewhere other than the composting loo to breed this year! We have also started to get some good dawn choruses. Last weekend's bunkhouse group were so keen to hear it they didn't go to bed! At the feeders this week we have had flocks of chaffinches and siskins as well as tits (blue, coal, great and long tailed), great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches, goldfinches, greenfinches and a yellowhammer. 

The tadpoles in our ponds have survived the easter holidays and are starting to show first hints of froginess.

And finally, this week the first bluebell appeared in our woods.