Exclusive reader holiday
Local experts, Ruth Miller and Alan Davies, have created a Welsh holiday tailored to BBCWildlifeMagazine readers, promising views of puffins, lekking grouse, red squirrels and grey seals, all in breathtaking scenery.
Join expert guides for a wildlife-watching treat in Wales this spring
You are invited to join an exclusive Welsh holiday created especially for readers of BBC Wildlife Magazine from 6 to 10 May 2017. This trip will be restricted to just six guests, staying at the comfortable Princes Arms Hotel in the Conwy Valley.
May is a wonderful time to visit North Wales, with its exciting blend of resident and migrant birds and charismatic mammals, all particularly active in spring, in varied habitats and stunning scenery.
You will have the best opportunities to spot wildlife in the company of your hosts, local experts Ruth Miller and Alan Davies, supported by a team of professional guides with expertise in their own particular areas.
At RSPB Conwy, you can enjoy warblers, waders and wildfowl at close range, and the dramatic limestone headland of the Great Orme, with its many seabirds and famous Kashmir goats. On the beautiful island of Anglesey, home to red squirrels and RSPB South Stack, there’s an excellent chance of seeing puffins and Atlantic grey seals.
There will be the opportunity to witness black grouse lekking on the high moors, and waders and raptors on the Dee Estuary at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands. You can visit North Wales’ only little tern breeding colony. Orchids bloom nearby, and there is a possibility of spotting the elusive sand lizard and natterjack toads.
One day, weather permitting, there will be a boat trip around Puffin Island, where you can look out for cetaceans, including harbour porpoises, in the waves, and seals on the rocks.