Thanks to Enid Owen, the CVCP Biodiversity Co-ordinator, who led a very successful walk on the West side of the Valley yesterday as part of Swansea’s City Nature Challenge. Thanks also to Russell Evans (Swansea RSPB Group) who accompanied the walk and helped identify different bird songs and calls.
This event is an annual four-day global bioblitz-style competition, where cities are in a friendly contest with each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species and who can engage the most people. Participants can record their observations using the free iNaturalist app.
This April marks ten years of the City Nature Challenge, themed “Bringing the Globe Together for Biodiversity.” It is the third year that Swansea is taking part in the challenge and there were 28 organised events.
Thanks to The Wildlife Trusts for the following information:
Native bluebells have:
- narrow leaves, about 1-1.5cm wide
- deep violet-blue (sometimes white), narrow, tubular-bell flowers, with tips that curl back
- flowers on one side of the stem
- distinctly drooping stems
- a sweet scent
- cream-coloured pollen inside
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/spanish-or-native-bluebell
