Rehoboth Terrace Holiday Cottage
Birdwatching
Anglesey is a great place to spot birds - we're very new to this, so half the time don't know what we're looking at, but here are some of our photos!
Birds of prey are very common - we often see them when we're out walking and have managed to get some great photos and videos of them.
We find the RSPB bird identifier is a good tool, and we have a variety of bird books in the house, full of colour photos and tips for identifying birds.
We also have binoculars at the house which you are welcome to use.
Our garden has a variety of bird feeders and looks out onto open fields, so you will be able to watch them without even leaving the house.
We also have nesting boxes on the house walls, currently inhabited by blue tits and sparrows.
You can typically see sparrows, blue tits, great tits, starlings, wrens, robins, blackbirds, jackdaws, rooks, chaffinches, pied wagtails and goldfinches just in our garden. Lake Maelog is about 10 minutes walk away and is inhabited by a wide variety of birdlife.
We like to name many of our bird friends, and Phil & Phyllis the pheasants are frequent visitors (they even eat from our bird feeders, given half a chance!)
Billy the buzzard can be seen practically every day over our garden and the fields beyond.
Harry the Heron occasionally visits the little lake behind our house, but is most frequently seen on Llyn Maelog and down by Crigyll River by the air base.
If you're very lucky, you might see Eddie the Little Egret there too.
Further afield, Puffin Island is just off the tip of Anglesey and there are RSPB boat trips that take you round the island from Beaumaris - they're well worth going on, but if you can pick a sunny day, you'll get much better photos! As well as puffins and other sea birds, there's also a seal colony on the island.
There is an RSPB reserve on South Stack cliffs, Holy Island, which has interactive materials and family-friendly events tailored to children. You'll be able to watch guillemots, razorbills and puffins all raising their young, while live television pictures give you an even closer view of the nests. They even provide binoculars and telescopes!