Nature’s Work provides expert wildlife walks with expert guides to help you make the most of the special wildlife here in North Wales and Snowdonia. We can tailor wildlife walking holidays to suit your needs and desires. We are happy to remove the stress of organising a short break by providing a complete package if required. From beautiful mountain valleys, with scenic lakes and rivers, to old slate quarries and woodland trails there is plenty of variety in north Wales to ensure suitable walks for everybody.
The Origins of Alpine Flowers The European Alps are alive with brightly coloured flowers and a very diverse array of flowering plants. The origins of alpine flowers illustrates great tectonic and geological movements of the past. This period in Earths history occurred when central Europe was largely under an ancient sea and with global average […]
The Alps are nearer than you think! There’s a taste of the Alps closer to home in the British mountains than you might think. The British mountains are home to a range of alpine flowers and reveal Britain’s alpine past. These hardy plants we commonly refer to as ‘arctic-alpines’ and form a record of our […]
The life of alpine flowers! The European Alps are renown for their biological diversity and are home to an estimated 650 truly Alpine species. They support many beautiful and distinctive plant species that are superbly adapted to the their specific habitats. The shear quantity and scale of alpine flowers is testament to the importance of […]
Purple saxifrage – The purple haze of spring Purple saxifrage is a remarkable plant. It is the highest flowering plant in the European Alps, it is also the most northerly flowering plant in the world and is found across the northern hemisphere from Canada to Japan. What’s more you can see this plant at home […]
What’s the difference between grasses, sedges and rushes? Sedges have edges, rushes are round and grasses have knuckles right down to the ground Whilst you are out enjoying your various pursuits in the mountains of Britain the vast areas of grassland that make up extensive areas of our upland regions often go without much consideration […]
Deglaciation in the Alps. We live in a time of great change regarding world climate. The retreat of the world’s ice caps and glaciers continues, exposing new surfaces once covered beneath vast frozen rivers of ice. With the unearthing of these rocky surfaces, comprising of glacially scoured bedrock, boulders and gravels, comes an opportunity for […]
This article looks at the dynamic alpine environment and explores the range of broad alpine habitats and ecosystems created in a rapidly changing and unstable environment. As you look towards the high alpine summits, beyond the dark green coniferous forests, you’ll see a mosaic of grassland, rock, scree and late winter snow patches as summer […]
In the spring of 2014 I had the pleasure of taking Tristan Gooley on a walk looking for outdoor clues and signs. We walked around Cwm Idwal National Nature Reserve in Snowdonia National Park. The walk features as a chapter in his book on Natural Navigation. The walk involved looking at wild flowers and geology […]
Ever wondered what is a lichen? They often appear as light green covering on trees so clear during winter months when the leaves have fallen. These are lichens and are made of 2 parts, an alga and fungi. Other living organisms cover trees too including ferns, mosses, fungi and plants. These are all collectively known […]
There are a few remaining, relict communities of arctic alpine flowers in Snowdonia. These were seen on a Nature’s Work mountain flowers course. A group of interested individuals investigated the plants of the mountain environment and were treated to a blast of diversty and colour on reaching the relict community found at Clogwyn Du’r Arddu […]
