Fancy a Date.................? With Nature I mean!
Throughout Wales, this spring and summer our team of People Engagement Officers will be out showing people some wonderful wildlife spectacles under the banner of our Date with Nature events.
Our Date with Nature events kick off on 21 March with BBC 'One Show' wildlife presenter Mike Dilger leading our first dawn walk to see a black grouse lek of the season. There are still spaces left to see this comical and noisy mating ritual in Denbighshire so get booking! (029 2035 3008).
From the end of March we will be showcasing the only pair of breeding Ospreys in Wales at Pont Croesor, near Porthmadog. The latest updates on the pair will be posted to our website for you to follow through the season. At time of writing, we've got everything crossed that they are winging their way back from Africa to wow us again with their fish-catching prowess!
The only chough nest-cam in the UK will be beaming live images of our pair that have nested in 'Chough Cavern' at Llechwedd Slate Caverns, a very popular tourist destination in its own right, in Blaenau Ffestiniog. For the last two years, we have been privileged to witness the pair raise six chicks. A new edition this year is a microphone that will bring the noisy family even closer to visitors.
Our award winning cruises round Puffin Island on the catamaran Cerismar Two, will make up another of the events in north Wales, with six days worth of trips during May, June & July waiting for your bookings! (029 2035 3008).
Further down the country, we will be showing the wonderful red kites at Forestry Commission Wales' Bwlch Nant-yr-Arian site near Ponterwyd. Fed at 3pm daily, up to 100 can be seen swirling above your head before swooping down to pick up meat on the other side of the picturesque lake.
Finally, at time of writing, the peregrines have returned to Cardiff City Hall Clock Tower and have been tidying the nest. A great sign that we can show these - the fastest animal on the planet - to visitors to National Museum Cardiff by way of the nest cam and also in the flesh from our stand on City Hall Lawn.
A Date with Nature will open up a completely new arena for us to get people closer to nature and enable us to offer visitors a memorable experience while generating support for our conservation work.
Come and join us, and marvel at the wonder of Wales' wildlife!
Click here for further information:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/brilliant
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