If you’ve stayed in Wales Holidays cottages in Pembrokeshire and West Wales, you may well have taken a boat trip out to Skokholm or Skomer island, National Nature Reserves of international importance for their seabird colonies.
In spring at the RSPB’s nature reserves in South, Mid and West Wales, the air is filled with birdsong as the birds attract a mate and establish their territories.
Each season brings a different experience at the RSPB’s nature reserves in Mid and North Wales. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has some wonderful bird reserves in Wales for everyone staying in a Wales Holidays cottage; our selection of the top five are all open all year and are very much family oriented with visitor cen
2.5 miles south-west of the Marloes peninsula in Pembrokeshire, Skokholm Island has been reaccredited as an official Bird Observatory, one of nineteen in Britain and Ireland.
Wales Holidays self-catering visitors to Pembrokeshire will be sure to visit stunning St David’s Cathedral in this tiny city at the far south-west of Wales.
Wales Cottage Holidays winter visitors to Mid Wales can see black and white barnacle geese at RSPB Ynys-hir, located on the saltmarshes between Machynlleth and Aberystwyth.
Wales Holidays visitors to Pembrokeshire cottages may be familiar with the island nature reserve of Grassholm. You can’t land here but exciting round-island sea safaris are possible from the village of Dale on the mainland.
Each season brings a different experience at the RSPB’s nature reserves in Mid and North Wales.
In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.