Welcome to the National Trust Aberdulais blog! Join us and enjoy! Chimney love and attention. Aberdulais Tin Works and Waterfall. Rising high above the site our Chimney stack played a key role in controlling air flow and therefore the temperature of the furnaces in the 19. We then hope we will be able to find enough of this type of brick loose around the site to recycle for the repairs. Have sand will point! .

Friday, 16 March 2018. 7-spot Ladybirds - a Seasonal First. I could feel the warmth of the sun coming through the glass earlier this afternoon, and went outside to find three Ladybirds in the back garden and two more by the front door. I was thinking this was fairly early for them to be scuttling about until I saw that my first sighting two years ago had been on 3 March 2016. What a beautiful 7-spot! Queen of the Spring.

Swansea Vale Sand Martin colony restored. Despite the freezing weather, the first Sand Martins have already arrived in the county and hopefully this urban colony will benefit from the excellent work undertaken by Sean and his team. Excellent views of what will hopefully be a busy colony can be enjoyed from the Swansea Vale footpath at SS67589877. Also keep an eye open for Goosanders and Dippers which are also frequent here.

Sunday, March 12, 2017. Some beautiful Bohemian Waxwings turned up in Winch Wen in the East of Swansea, back in January, 2017. I just had to head over there to take a look. Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Autumn in the Clyne Valley, Swansea. Thursday, September 10, 2015. Sunday, June 21, 2015.

National Trust Brecon Beacons and Monmouthshire. News from the National Trust team in the Brecon Beacons and Monmouthshire. Natural wonders of wildlife monitoring. Before and after; coppicing work on the Skirrid. Species like silver-washed fritillary like open glades and .

One of our Garden volunteers Ellen, has been faithfully keeping a diary of her work at Mount Stewart. When you volunteer it goes without saying that you have to find pleasure in what you are doing and that for me is a given in the gardens of Mount Stewart. And the Japanese concept of. Volunteers and staff provided the audience for. Something else I take particular pleasure .

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Conservation is the careful management of change. Books, pests and stairs. Our recent Conservation in Action demonstrations have been going great. Last week Assistant House Steward Lizzie attended an Emergency Salvage training course at Dudley Community Fire Station. The final practical was a simulated fire, with trainees required to react to the incident by p.