City Nature Challenge 2026 - Crymlyn Burrows BIOBLITZ!

Crymlyn Burrows is an amazing wildlife-rich area of beach, sand dunes, slacks, salt marsh, and rare alder carr wet woodland.

It's nationally important for invertebrates including scarce damselflies. We're very fortunate that Ben, the SSSI warden who knows this area incredibly well, is leading this walk.

We may see tadpoles, froglets, grasshoppers, slow worms, moths, caterpillars, butterflies including Small Blues plus Heath Dog Violets, Thick-legged Flower Beetles and maybe ever wonderfully-named Gold-fringed Mason Bees.

Bring hand lenses to have a good look at insects and please dress for the weather on the day!

As this event is part of the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge, bring your phones, fully charged and pre-download the app if you can

For iphones: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/inaturalist-classic/id421397028

For android phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android&hl=en_GB

Ben will talk us through how to photograph and log species that we find.

This event will take two hours and is suitable for families and beginner naturalists. Experts are very welcome too.

We request donations of at least £1 per adult towards Wildlife Trust group funds.

No dogs except assistance dogs.

Parking is in the SSSI car park -- What3Words: ///unheated.scarred.reinvest

Cost of parking is £3.50 per day.

There is bicycle parking nearby and the SSSI entrance is on a bus route, east of Swansea University's Bay Campus.

Image of Small Blue on sand dunes by J Hawkins.

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