Lower Moors
Situated just to the east of Hugh Town, Lower Moors is one of the first really wild places you encounter on St Mary's after leaving the town. Lying between Telegraph Road and Trench Lane (…
Situated just to the east of Hugh Town, Lower Moors is one of the first really wild places you encounter on St Mary's after leaving the town. Lying between Telegraph Road and Trench Lane (…
One of the wilder areas of St Mary's and one of the Isles of Scilly's main wetland areas, Higher Moors and the associated Porth Hellick Pool and the shingle sand bar of Porth Hellick…
This brown seaweed lives in the lower shore and gets its name from the serrated edges to its fronds.
Sugar kelp is the crinkly belt like kelp that can often be found in deep rockpools on the lower shore or washed up on the beach after rough seas.
The razorbill has a characteristically thick, black bill, with a white stripe across it. It nests with other seabirds, such as guillemots, but prefers the lower ledges and rocky bottoms of cliffs…
The blackbird of the mountains, ring ouzels can be found breeding on upland moors and rocky crags in summer.
Taking place on the first Sunday of May, International Dawn Chorus Day is the worldwide celebration of nature's greatest orchestra. All across the world people rise early to revel in the…
This striking black-and-white moth flies during the day in open woodlands, moorlands, and bogs. It's most common on Scottish moors.
A summer visitor, the wheatear is a handsome chat, with black cheeks, white eyestripes, a blue back and a pale orange chest. Look for it on upland heaths and moors.
The greenshank breeds on the boggy moors and ancient peatlands of Scotland. But it can be spotted elsewhere in the UK as it passes through on migration - look around lakes, marshes and the coast…
The yellow, star-like flowers of bog asphodel brighten up our peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer, attracting a range of pollinating insects.
The Black darter is a black, narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen throughout summer and autumn. It is hovers around damp moors, heaths and bogs, darting out to surprise its prey.