There is always a chance to something of interest at Teifi Marshes and the Welsh Wildlife Centre, no matter what the season.

Spring:

In spring as the first blushes of life are being seen at the Welsh Wildlife Centre there is a chance to see

• 

  Bluebells Neil Aldridge

• bluebells in flower
• blossom along the wooded pathways
• the first of the dragonflies emerging

Summer:

• butterflies, including purple hairstreak from the Tree Tops hide
• dragonflies such as emperor, broad bodied chasers, southern hawkers and scarce blue-tailed damselfly
• breeding birds such as reed warblers, sedge warblers, Cetti’s warblers and whitethroats

Autumn:

• salmon heading up stream
• the stunning autumn colours around the reserve
• fungi
• sounds of red and sika deer rutting – the sika deer have a particularly eerie whistling screaming calls.
• abundance of hedgerow berries
• autumnal migrating birds such as redwings, fieldfares and Siberian blackbirds.

Winter:

Teal by Amy Lewis

• over wintering birds such as teal, wigeon and mallard in their thousands
• murmurations of starlings
• trees hung with lichens and mosses