Your recent sightings at Lake Vyrnwy
Your recent sightings
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Gone Batty!
It won’t have slipped your attention that signs of autumn are upon us, and with this changing of the season comes the change in wildlife. Most of our summer visitors have headed south, with pied flycatcher and cuckoo likely to be in southern Europ...
Posted 06 Sep 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy -
Flash from the Past
You will no doubt have noticed that this year appears to have been an exceptionally good for butterflies for many species. The mass invasion of painted ladies has been reported widely and though we don't have anything like the numbers being record...
Posted 16 Aug 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy -
A Clear Success
It's been great to have some warm sunny weather after what has been quite a wet late spring, early summer. This has been perfect for the emergence of thousands of insects from the fluttering butterflies to the humming hoverflies and not forgetting...
Posted 18 Jul 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy -
Look What I've Seen
Sometimes you can get lucky and see a particular element of nature just when you want, but at other times you have to be patient and try, try and try again. I asked Ed, one of our Intern Volunteers to cover his recent experience at Vyrnwy: After s...
Posted 31 May 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy -
Out and About
At this time of year the wardening team are out and about as much as possible surveying the key bird species breeding on the reserve. This year we are concentrating on the moorland, with surveys for hen harrier, merlin, curlew, black grouse, red...
Posted 23 May 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy -
No it wasn't! But maybe now...
Our last post a couple of weeks ago was entitled ‘ Is it Spring yet? ’, well this posts title answers that question. The weather has again been one of the talking points with a return to wintery scenes and then a week of cold crisp Spring mornings...
Posted 14 Apr 2019 by Lake Vyrnwy
