Your tern to help
Ever fancied doing a spot of wildlife volunteering? Now's your chance, as the rare sandwich tern colony at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey need your help.
An informal volunteer training session will give you a unique opportunity to meet wardens, and learn how you can help protect the terns.
Sandwich tern by Ben Stammers:
The volunteer training event, run by the (NWWT), will be held on Saturday, 8 May at 4pm at Cemlyn Nature Reserve, Anglesey.
NWWT's Ben Stammers, who is coordinating the event, said "It's crucial that we protect these birds so that future generations will be able to come here and witness the amazing spectacle of the colony."
Cemlyn Bay:
Tern numbers have stabilised at Cemlyn, following a few bad years for the breeding colony in 2007 and 2008 when increased pressure from disturbance, predators and bad summer weather caused the colony to crash.
Setting up a concerted vigil by volunteers and wardens in 2009 secured a safe place for the birds to breed.
It's an amazing place to visit. I was there in 2009 and chatted to some of the volunteers who spend hours down there in all sorts of weather - guarding and monitoring the terns.
The terns are amazing to watch though, flying in low over the waves at break neck speed, as they return to their hungry chicks, dodging the predatory gulls on the way in - literally within a few feet of you, if you sit quietly on the beach.
Read my blog about Cemlyn Bay from Springwatch 2009.
Gull
An informal volunteer training session will give you a unique opportunity to meet wardens, and learn how you can help protect the terns.
Sandwich tern by Ben Stammers:
The volunteer training event, run by the (NWWT), will be held on Saturday, 8 May at 4pm at Cemlyn Nature Reserve, Anglesey.
NWWT's Ben Stammers, who is coordinating the event, said "It's crucial that we protect these birds so that future generations will be able to come here and witness the amazing spectacle of the colony."
Cemlyn Bay:
Tern numbers have stabilised at Cemlyn, following a few bad years for the breeding colony in 2007 and 2008 when increased pressure from disturbance, predators and bad summer weather caused the colony to crash.
Setting up a concerted vigil by volunteers and wardens in 2009 secured a safe place for the birds to breed.
It's an amazing place to visit. I was there in 2009 and chatted to some of the volunteers who spend hours down there in all sorts of weather - guarding and monitoring the terns.
The terns are amazing to watch though, flying in low over the waves at break neck speed, as they return to their hungry chicks, dodging the predatory gulls on the way in - literally within a few feet of you, if you sit quietly on the beach.
Read my blog about Cemlyn Bay from Springwatch 2009.
Gull
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