Meanwhile (30th March) Tom has been walking the Wales Coast Path on the Gower Peninsula from Caswell Bay to Three Cliffs Bay and Parkmill...obviously a cracking day!
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| Left: crinoids at Caswell Bay, right: Brandy Cove lead mine. |
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| Black Oil Beetles. The middle beetle was digging out from it's host's burrow. |
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| Western Bee-fly, Dark-Bordered Bee-fly and a Green Tiger Beetle at Hunts Bay. |
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| Solitary bees: Nomad bees, Cliff Mining bees, Tawny Mining bees, Red Mason bees, Blood bees, ad Andrena Mining bee male. |
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| Coastal flora: spring squill, violets and thrift coming into flower. |
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| Coastal birds- Peregrines, stonechats, jackdaws and breeding choughs. |
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| Left to right: the first Early Purple Orchids coming into bud, Gorse and Blackthorn on limestone cliffs, Yellow Whitlow Grass on Pennard Castle- an Ice-age relic and Blackthorn blossom. |
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| Views along the coast path including left: from west Caswell Bay, top right: Hunts Bay and middle right: looking towards Three Cliffs Bay and Nicholaston Burrows. |
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| Parc Cwm Long Cairn, a Neolithic Chambered Tomb and Cathole Cave, a Mesolithic shelter. |
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