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Cae Bryntywarch Nature Reserve
This wildflower meadow has always been managed traditionally with grazing by cattle or ponies from spring to autumn. This kind of rough, damp grassland is known in Wales as Rhos pasture and is becoming rare. Please keep dogs on a lead as skylarks often nest within the rough grass.
What to look out for:
The meadow is home to a range of colourful plants. In spring it is flecked with the pinks of common spotted and heath spotted orchids, which are then followed by the yellows of bog asphodel and dyer’s greenweed. In the summer, the dense lilac-blue heads of devil's-bit scabious flowers add to the colourful display.
Standing towards the top of the meadow gives good views of the surrounding farmland. Buzzards and red kites can sometimes be seen soaring overhead and in the spring the distinctive call of the cuckoo can sometimes be heard.
Species and habitats
- Habitats
- Lowland Meadows, Rhos Pasture, Rivers and streams, Hedgerows
- Species
- Bird's-foot-trefoil, Bog Asphodel, Bracken, Bramble, Brown Hare, Buzzard, Common Spotted-orchid, Cottongrass, Cross-leaved Heath, Cuckoo, Devil's-bit Scabious, Dyer's Greenweed, Great Burnet, Knapweed, Meadow Thistle, Quaking-grass, Ragged-Robin, Red Kite, Ribwort Plantain, Saw-wort, Skylark, Sweet Vernal-grass, Tormentil, Wild Angelica, Yorkshire-fog
Nearby nature reserves
- Daudraeth Illtyd
- 10.7 miles - Brecknock Wildlife Trust
- Poor Mans Wood
- 11.5 miles - The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales
- Coed Dyrysiog
- 12.2 miles - Brecknock Wildlife Trust
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