Llanelli News
BioBlitz!
On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June we will be holding our first ever BioBlitz here at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre. A BioBlitz is a collaborative race, where members of the public and expert naturalists come together to find, identify and record as many di
27 May 2013
Duckery tours start today!
Saturday 25th May - Sunday 2nd June Come along this week to join one of our behind-the-scenes duckery tours! The duckery is open to the public for one week only every year, and you can join in any day this week at 12pm, 2pm or 3pm – just book
25 May 2013
Dawn chorus report
A fantastic diversity of birds was heard at our Dawn Chorus event on Saturday 4 May, despite a wet and cloudy start to the day! Within just a few metres of the centre, willow warblers were singing, while at the top of the visitor car park, whitethroat an
5 May 2013
Wild breeding birds update
Mute swans are nesting on deep water lake, best seen from the Heron’s wing hide, and lapwing have now started nesting on the islands in front of the Peter Scott hide. More black-headed gulls continue to join the breeding colony in front of the boardwal
21 April 2013
The breeding season continues...
The breeding season continues, with our first three nene chicks celebrating turning one month old this Wednesday, and mallard and moorhen chicks hatching around the grounds. A total of five pairs of nenes now have chicks, two have only one chick a
8 April 2013
Iolo Williams filming at WWT Llanelli!
Iolo Williams pond dipping on a previous visit to WWT Llanelli WWT Llanelli is pleased to announce that Natur Y Gwanwyn - a new nature series presented by Iolo Williams - is to be transmitted on S4/C every night betwe
18 March 2013
Nene mothers' day!
It’s a very happy mothers’ day here at WWT Llanelli as one of our nenes has become a mother, with the first three nene chicks of the season hatching today! The chicks were first spotted by volunteer Eric James in our island pen. They have been out an
10 March 2013
Running the Llanelli half marathon for WWT
Runners in the 2012 Llanelli marathon This Sunday's Llanelli half marathon is being run to raise funds for WWT by Alan Wilcox. Alan is planning a run near each of WWT's nine wetland reserves to raise money and awarene
1 March 2013
The breeding season begins!
To celebrate national nest box week, on Friday 15 and Sunday 17 February we ran robin and blue tit nest box building workshops. 35 nest boxes were produced all together, mostly by children, with the expert tuition of volunteer Eric James, who didn’t ge
17 February 2013
TV presenter Mike Dilger feeds the 500!
(Edited from the Big 9 Challenge blog written by Mark Simpson) On Sunday 27 January, TV presenter Mike Dilger visited WWT Llanelli! The sun was shining and centre manager Nigel Williams took Mike on a quick tour of the centre, picking up gadwall, pochar
31 January 2013
Special programme and special offer for schools to celebrate world wetlands day!
As part of our world wetlands day celebrations this year (as well as two of our staff performing magic tricks before having wet sponges thrown at them! - see http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/llanelli/whats-on/2013/02/02/world-wetlands-day/) we are offering
12 January 2013
Can TV presenter Mike Dilger feed over 500 birds at WWT Llanelli in less than an hour?
Mike Dilger Can TV presenter and naturalist Mike Dilger feed all of our collection birds, over 500 in total, the right food in less than an hour...? You are welcome to join him on his journey and find out! He will beg
11 January 2013
Local photographer wins first place in wetland wildlife photography competition
The winning photo - "Egg thief" by Wayne Davies Local photographer Wayne Davies has won first place in the national Canon/WWT photography competition in the Wetland Wildlife category for his photograph entitled “Egg thief” - congratulations Wayne
10 January 2013
Wetland willow creations!
Over the school Christmas holidays we ran two willow sculpture workshops for our visitors, creating individually designed 2D willow sculptures based on wetland themes. All ages got involved from young children to adults, bending willow to create a framew
7 January 2013
Tick and twitch - 73 species seen!
Nuthatch (Image credit: John Day) On Tuesday, new year’s day, we held our annual tick and twitch event. Helped by lovely weather this year’s event was particularly popular, with many people, including plenty of children, taking part. The car park
3 January 2013