Meadow pipit
The meadow pipit favours moorland and grassland. It is an unfortunate victim of cuckolding behaviour - their own young being pushed out of the nest, so they can look after the 'parasitic…
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Chwilio
Common juniper
A sprawling, spiny evergreen, common juniper is famous for its traditional role in gin-making. Once common on downland, moorland and coastal heathland, it is now much rarer due to habitat loss.…
Tormentil
Tormentil can be found growing on acid grassland, heathland and moorland, but even pops up alongside roads. It bears yellow, buttercup-like flowers, but with only four petals (buttercups have five…
Golden plover
From spring, look out for the beautiful, speckled gold-and-black breeding plumage of the golden plover. It can be found in its upland moorland breeding grounds from May to September, moving to…
Tan Y Coed
Belt of ancient semi-natural woodland
Bailey Einon
An ancient woodland with the River Ithon flowing by.
Cefn Cenarth
A sessile oak woodland brimming with lichens and mosses.
Sideland
A small woodland with a good display of spring flowers.
Withybeds
An island of wet willow woodland alongside the River Lugg.
Fronwen Wood
A semi-natural ancient woodland with some beautiful old trees.
Burfa Bog
A mosiac of grassland and woodland with a bog habitat full of insect activity.
Pentrosfa Mire
A reminder of the wild expanse of wetland, heath and woodland of days past.