We usually showcase the plants, fungi & invertebrates of coal spoil sites - but here’s some of the hidden life too 🐭
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We usually showcase the plants, fungi & invertebrates of coal spoil sites - but here’s some of the hidden life too 🐭
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
Wood Mice sheltering under a metal sheet at Darren Fawr Tip in the Garw Valley.
Coal tips: full of surprises, even in winter.
#GloiNatur #CoaltoNature #SouthWalesValleys
The horse and his amazing technicolour raincoat. Great writing from bewilderbrain when a short stroll doesn't quite go as expected. #walking #walkingdiary #horses #buzzard #pontypridd #southwalesvalleys #nature
“The horse looks around at me slowly like the locals in The Slaughtered Lamb.
I take a few slow steps.
It puts its front hooves onto a rocky outcrop to raise itself for an announcement.
"whhhiiiibbbbbbrrrrrbbbblllllthwth" It says.”
#weirdhorse #buzzard #natureescapes #naturetherapy #welshvalleys
I take a few slow steps.
It puts its front hooves onto a rocky outcrop to raise itself for an announcement.
"whhhiiiibbbbbbrrrrrbbbblllllthwth" It says.”
#weirdhorse #buzzard #natureescapes #naturetherapy #welshvalleys
The weird horse and the buzzard – a brief encounter…
The horse begins to sidle, and I think its fair to say I’ve never seen a horse sidle before, along the pathway towards me…
bewilderbrain.com
June 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The horse and his amazing technicolour raincoat. Great writing from bewilderbrain when a short stroll doesn't quite go as expected. #walking #walkingdiary #horses #buzzard #pontypridd #southwalesvalleys #nature
To walk the landscape is to understand by default, by sense – the area you live in – it brings an infinitely heightened awareness of its changes, season by season, year by year, which cannot help but make you feel part of it. #belonging #hiraeth #pontypridd #southwalesvalleys #Rhondda #scapes #walks
"A sense of home cannot be forced, and belonging cannot be bought - but connection can always be sought....
Connection, through landscapes and community, is the most inviting, verdant, flower filled pathway toward belonging."
#welshvalleys #belonging #landscapewalking #connection #welshwalking
Connection, through landscapes and community, is the most inviting, verdant, flower filled pathway toward belonging."
#welshvalleys #belonging #landscapewalking #connection #welshwalking
The Call of the Valleys – Walking a landscape to belong…
Those of us with nomadic pasts may struggle to feel rooted ...Home is where the heart sings, the mind opens, and the footsteps are trodden fearlessly...
bewilderbrain.com
May 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
To walk the landscape is to understand by default, by sense – the area you live in – it brings an infinitely heightened awareness of its changes, season by season, year by year, which cannot help but make you feel part of it. #belonging #hiraeth #pontypridd #southwalesvalleys #Rhondda #scapes #walks
Is it a wonder the NHS was borne of the Valleys? Something extraordinary. Those who attack it have no understanding of the pain that spurred it, the value of it now, and in future given the impacts of Earth Crisis. #ClimateJustice #NHS #SouthWalesValleys
December 1, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Is it a wonder the NHS was borne of the Valleys? Something extraordinary. Those who attack it have no understanding of the pain that spurred it, the value of it now, and in future given the impacts of Earth Crisis. #ClimateJustice #NHS #SouthWalesValleys