From Tyn-y-Gongl you can looks down onto the beautiful bay at Benllech. A raised rocky plateau rolls down to fields of sheep and horses. Wild areas are nestled amongst the quaint homes and holiday caravans.Due to the lack of rain in May the orchids I found were super tiny.
Author archives: Jo Quinney
Cors Bodeilio Orchids 2020
Orchid hunting at Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Cors Bodeilio, Ynys Môn / Cors Bodeilio National Nature Reserve, Anglesey 7 June 2020.Due to CORVID-19 I assumed that the car par would be closed. I drove a short distance from home and parked near my friends home at Talwrn. I then walked the mile or so into the […]
Swift Boxes
North Wales Wildlife Trust Swift Boxes We were very luck in 2017 to have three swift boxes fitted on the house by the North Wales Wildlife Trust. Read more about the project at https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/our-projects/swift-conservation-project.There were fly by’s in late 2017 but no swifts have come to nest with us yet! Update: A pair of swifts […]
Purple Saxifrage
Purple Saxifrage is one of the earliest wildflowers to emerge. It grows above Llyn Idwal on high rocky outcrops. It is one of the first flowers that I go out to hunt for in the year.
February sunsets
In February I took a photo of the Strait at sunset. I began the project on 03/02/20 at 5pm and finished 29/02/20 5.35pm. I only missing one evening due to work commitments at RibRide. Here are all the images with sounds from the Prom. I never knew what to expect. Some afternoons/evenings were grey but […]
Newborough Orchids
Orchid hunting in Gwarchodfa Natur a Choedwig Genedlaethol Niwbwrch, Ynys Môn/ Newborough National Nature Reserve and Forest, Anglesey, 30 June 2019.
Champagne et Fontaine Orchids 2019
Orchid hunting in the Dordogne around the canton where my father lives, Champagne-et-Fontaine, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.At his house the bottom field is now full of lizard tongue orchids. When my parents first moved in, over ten years ago, it was a hard-baked mud field with horses. My father spotted an orchid over the fencing he had […]
Cors Bodeilio Orchids 2019
Orchid hunting at Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Cors Bodeilio, Ynys Môn / Cors Bodeilio National Nature Reserve, Anglesey 18 June 2019.
Kenfig Orchids
Orchid hunting in Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Cynffig / Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Ton Kenfig, Pyle, South Wales, 15 June 2019.
Dordogne Orchids
Orchid hunting in the Dordogne – I love orchids and going out with my phone to search for and take a picture of orchids. Slowly my knowledge is growing.