As it is National Whale & Dolphin Watch Week 2008 we thought now is a good time to publish a photo of a Leaping Dolphin sculpture!
Thus we have uploaded photos of the Leaping Dolphin wooden sculpture at Aberporth village, near Cardigan.
In the Gallery in the S + M section here.
For more information on whale and dolphin spotting, take a peek at the Sea Watch Foundation website.
Postscript : One of the most depressing sights of the summer is the sight of people putting their ugly oily machines in the sea so that they can race about on show creating a lot of noise. The pollution caused by these useless toys threatens the natural habitat of many species, not just the bottlenose dolphins....
Many people visit Aberdare Blog looking for creatures that inhabit Aberdare Park including the Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) a rare and elusive African antelope, the black rhino, the bush pig, or giant forest hog.
We apologise, but we are only able to offer ducks, geese and other birds, trees, flowers, a variety of fungi, the annual colourful Carnival and road races, and of course, last but not least, the Aberdare Park grey squirrels.
We are nonetheless very, very proud of our local wildlife, flora and fauna.
Aberdare Park in Wales is around 50 hectares. Aberdare National Park in Kenya is around 77,000 hectares. The mind boggles at this scale.
If our mathematics are correct, you could fit nearly 3790 Aberdare Parks into the Kenyan Aberdare National Park.
Why did the Kenyans name such a...
Imagine living in a world with no birds and no spring songs to enrich our lives and nourish our souls. A world where the fires of industry had burned all the trees and where the only sounds were artificial and anonymous sounds : a chorus of machines, rotating monotonously.
This weekend the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds organised their annual Big Garden Birdwatch, perhaps the biggest such birdwatching event in the world. This event offered many people an opportunity to ‘re-connect’ with their own natural environment.
We take our environment for granted at our peril. By our overuse of chemicals we risk losing not only our spring birds, but poisoning ourselves. This is a lesson that an American woman, scientist and writer taught in her book Silent Spring...
Climate change could be keeping the birds out of Hirwaun gardens, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is urging Hirwaun people to help them monitor numbers.
This weekend (27-28 January) is the charity’s Big Garden Birdwatch, when it hopes half a million people will spend an hour counting the birds in their gardens to help build a detailed picture of garden bird life.
Richard Bashford, the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch co-ordinator, said: ‘Last year’s summer was the hottest since Big Garden Birdwatch began in 1979. This was followed by an incredibly warm autumn with lots of natural foods in our woodlands and hedgerows. We’re really interested to see the impact of this unusual combination of weather and abundant wild food on wintering garden bird numbers.’
Many of...
