Rhos Llanilltud Faerdref

In spring, listen for the jingling song of reed buntings and the trilling of tree pipits. The fen-meadow in summer is full of flowers: bog bean, marsh valerian, and ragged robin to name a few. In the peatbogs you’ll see cotton-grass and sphagnum moss. In autumn a haze of blue-purple devil’s-bit scabious flowers transform the marsh. This is home to the marsh fritillary butterfly, their larval webs feeding on scabious leaves – not to be mistaken for spider webs!

Enjoy the flowering of petty whin, lousewort, tormentil, heather and cross-leaved heath, the beautiful meadow thistle, and the dense white-pink flower heads of the heath spotted orchid. Keep a look out for small, spherical grass nests - these are the homes of harvest mice. They weigh as little as a 2 pence piece and are the only British mammal with a prehensile tail, able to grip to tall grass stems with ease!