Wildlife Trust Group Field trip

We went on a field trip yesterday with the Wildlife Trust to a farm in West Wales. We had a bird spotting competition on the way in the car and managed to spot 20 different species. We had a really good day out and saw some very interesting things. It was fun eating our lunch in a barn on a bale of hay.

The sheep didn't mind the rain

We had fun catching grasshoppers

This is a Butterfly Orchid which is a rare plant

We have seen this plant before, its Butterwort which traps insects and feeds off them like a venus fly trap. If you look closely you can see its victims stuck to the leaf.

A nestbox with 11 baby blue tits about to fledge

An Azure Dragonfly sheltering from the rain

Chrysalis of a Burnet Moth

Caterpiller of a Burnet Moth

This cool beetle looks like a jewel and is called Gastrophysa viridula, its a leaf beetle.

You can tell its a female because its abdomen is swollen with eggs.

Tuna sarnies in the Barn

The farm had some lovely woods with a river running through it.

Mossy banks in the river gorge.