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Clwb Garddio Llangoed Pioneers Walking Group: every Gardening Club: the third Wednesday, 2.00pm, Canolfan Monday of the month at 7.30pm, Iorwerth Rowlands Centre, Llangoed Village Hall; see also Steeple Lane. Telephone Howard page 4. Jackson on 01248 810050 for more information. Knitting Club: the third Monday of the month at Pont y Brenin Beaumaris Film Night: the first Community hub, 2.00pm-3.00pm. Thursday of the month at
Aerobics Class: every Monday, 7.30pm, Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre. Telephone 01248 6.30pm-7.30pm, Llangoed 811200 or e-mail enquiries@ Village Hall. All abilities welcome! canolfanbeaumaris.org.uk for Clwb Ifanc Ffermwyr Llangoed more information. The Young Farmers Club: every programme for January-March Monday, 7.30pm-9.00pm, 2020 will be available on 5 Neuadd Bentref Llanddona December, when Rocketman will Village Hall (yr Hen Ysgol) (not be the film of the evening. Llangoed Village Hall). Anglesey’s own Taron Egerton is Telephone Emily Roberts on stunning in his portrayal of the 01248 810424 for more highs and lows of Elton John’s information; see also page 4. career in an epic musical fantasy, Llangoed WI: the first so make sure you cancel Wednesday of the month at everything to go and see it! 2.00pm, Llangoed Village Hall; see also page 5. Beaumaris Victorian Christmas: Saturday/Sunday Zumba Fitness Class: every 23/24 November, starting at Wednesday, 6.30pm-7.30pm, 11.00am: get into the Christmas
Llangoed Village Hall. All abilities spirit! There will be lots to see welcome! See Taron Egerton starring as Elton John in Rocketman at the and do, including Santa Claus Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre next month Whist group: alternate and his Reindeer, Victorian side Thursdays, 1.30pm-3.00pm, Pont shows, a food court and much y Brenin Community Hub. more. For more information e- mail beaumarisvictorian Seiriol Men’s Shed: for men [email protected]. aged 18-108: the chance to meet and chat...all abilities are Table top sale: the first Sunday welcome! Every Thursday at of the month, 10.00am-4.00pm, 10.00am, Pont y Brenin Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Community Hub; see also pages Centre; refreshments are 3 and 8. available. Telephone 01248 811200 or e-mail enquiries@ Bingo: the third Friday of the canolfanbeaumaris.org.uk. month at 7.00pm, Pont y Brenin Community Hub. Antiques & collectors’ fair: the third Sunday of the month Pop-up Pub and Music Night: 10.00am-4.00pm, Canolfan Saturday 30 November, Beaumaris Leisure Centre; Llangoed Village Hall; 7.00pm- refreshments are available. 12.00 midnight. The DJ will be Contact morganfairs@ playing an eclectic mix of classic hotmail.com or telephone vinyl...so dig out those dancing 07516 277794 for information/ shoes! bookings.
Café, carols and pop-up Castle Players’ Pantomime nativity service: Sunday 15 2019: Wednesday-Saturday 11- December, 2.30pm for a 3.00pm 14 December, 6.30pm for
start, Llangoed Village Hall: 7.00pm; matinee performance please come and join us for a retelling of the Christmas Saturday 14 December, 1.30pm for 2.00pm, Beaumaris story with tea, coffee, mince pies and a blessing of the Town Hall: yes, everybody, it’s almost that time of year village Christmas tree. Come as any character from the again (oh, no, it isn’t!). Castle Players’ pantomime this year Nativity story; it doesn’t matter if we have more than one will be Snow White and the Several Dwarfs by Andrew
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O’Leary. It’s directed by Carol Ryan-Young, and is a new usually on the last Sunday of each month at 10.30am. look at an old favourite with all the usual characters (and more), but with a difference... Tickets are priced at £8 for Local poet! Meg Marsden will be joined at the Owain adults (16+) and £5 for children. Glyndŵr at the end of November by her many friends and neighbours, near and far, to celebrate the launch of her For more information visit http://castleplayersbeaumaris. latest book, Anglesey Rocks! Copies will be available from org.uk/. Meg at [email protected]. Llanddona: Ffair Gaeaf a Marchnad Nadolig/Winter Fair and Neuadd Bentref Llanddona Village Hall: the new Village Christmas Market: Saturday 30 November, 11.00am- Hall (yr Hen Ysgol) is now clearly signposted off the main 2.00pm, Neuadd Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr Hen road up through the village Ysgol): there’ll be a variety of towards the Owain Glyndŵr pub. stalls, including Seiriol Mens It’s difficult to miss as it’s the only Shed demonstrating their large blue building for miles. craftsmanship and their working model of Trwyn Du lighthouse. Llanddona Table Tennis Group: every Monday, Neuadd The Owain Glyndŵr: in the run Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr up to Christmas: Hen Ysgol), 10.00am-12.00 noon; o 8 November: Race Night at £2.50 per head, to cover hall hire 8.00pm and tea/coffee. Everyone is o 13 November: Pudding Club at welcome; no booking is required. 7.00pm We have two new tables, and o 16 November: Bingo, 7.30pm bats have been donated; please onwards bring a bat, though, if you have o 7 December: Christmas Quiz one. Our thanks go to Benllech at 7.30pm Table Tennis Group for their o 14 December: Village generous donation of a table, and Christmas Meal to those who donated the second o Special nights through the table and the bats. For more winter months: fish’n’chips information contact Kirsty Simpson at kirstyalison every Tuesday; chicken [email protected]. curry/vegetable curry every Friday Village Knit Club: every
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Paned a Sgwrs: the second HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICE Monday of the month at Rev Richard Adams led the Bro 10.30am, Neuadd Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr Hen Seiriol Harvest Festival service in Ysgol). Contact Gill Vaughan on Llangoed Church on Sunday 29 September; it was a great success. 07925 184476 or Heather McLoughlin on 01248 810354 for About 70 people attended and more information. generously donated, not only to the Bangor Cathedral food bank but Llanddona Writing Group: every other Tuesday (22 29 September: a full church: the Bro Seiriol Harvest Festival also to Watsan, our clean water aid service (via Richard Adams) charity in Uganda. October, 5 November and so on) at 4.00pm, Neuadd Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr Hen The church was almost full, with people in the side aisles as Ysgol). Please join us if you enjoy any sort of writing: well, and there was a decorated box with food bank goodies memoirs, poems, short stories, articles or blogs, novels brought by the congregation’s youngest member, Tomos from even; or maybe you’d just like a bit of encouragement to Llanddona, who goes to Llangoed school. The service was start or get back into it. Either way, please contact Stephen preceded by a short presentation describing the recent Marsden on 07774 699685 for more information. Harvest Assembly at Llangoed school, led by Rev Lesley
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Anglesey & Caernarfon Dog Club: will meet in due
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Area. The area includes what used to be the parishes of that there was still a wealth of garden flowers with a large Beaumaris, Llanfaes, Llangoed, Llanddona and Penmon. floral arrangement full of colour which was included in the raffle at the end of the meeting. Robert is currently Bangor Diocesan Communications Officer and Ministry Area Leader in On 21 October soil expert Julie Llanberis. He was inducted at a Williamson gave an illustrated talk special service on Monday 21 about the make-up of our soil.
October at 7.00pm in the Church of Our usual Christmas lunch will be at St Mary and St Nicholas, Harry’s Bistro, Llanfaes, on Friday Beaumaris. He brings a wide range 15 November. of experience and skills from a variety of parish settings, and will be We look forward to 2020, with our living in the Beaumaris Rectory. first speaker on 20 January being Anna Williams from North Wales Robert will be contributing Wildlife Trust, telling us all we need something to The Puffin in the near to know about bumblebees. future, and we look forward to Collecting the cheque! For more information please contact getting to know him. Back row, L-R: Rhun Owen, Chloë Pritchard, Mark Hughes, Ann Donlan on 07919031403, (Richard Adams) Rhian Hughes, Julie Hughes, Lynne Hennessey Front row, L-R: Elin Owen, Amy Pritchard, Emily Roberts Lyn Gallagher on 07857 697572 or Jean Whitehead on 01248 490813. (via Amy Pritchard)
CLWB IFANC FFERMWYR (Jean Whitehead)
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CLUB CYNGOR IEUENCTID LLAIS NI This summer one of our members YOUTH COUNCIL left, our leader, Elin Owen. We wish Cyngor Ieuenctid Llais Ni: mae her all the best for the future. Caitlyn grŵp o bobl ifanc rhwng 11 a 17 oed Parry, Eli Jones and Megan Roberts sy’n aelodau o'r grŵp cymunedol have new job roles in the Club and BFFs Llangoed ar Ynys Môn wedi we wish them every success. In the chwarae eu rhan yn codi arian i leoli summer holidays we – the Club – sawl cyfarpar diffibrilio yn ardal were busy marshalling for the Jean Whitehead makes flower arranging look so easy (AP) Llangoed. Anglesey County Show and the Beaumaris 10km run. We also Deilliodd hyn yn dilyn penderfyniad collected a cheque from the gan Hwb Pont y Brenin i roi eu helw Llanddona and Beaumaris Horse o’r noson Bingo i brynu diffibriliwr ar and Pony Club; we are very grateful gyfer y Neuadd Bentref, ac i ddilyn to them. Since the Club restarted cynhaliwyd gweithgareddau eraill i back in September we are now in godi arian i brynu offer ychwanegol the new Village Hall (yr Hen Ysgol), ar gyfer yr Ysgol Gynradd yn and it’s great to be there. Llangoed, ac i Dîm Achub Gwylwyr y Glannau Penmon. We’re pleased to say that four new members have joined us. If you’re Fel rhan o’u gweithgareddau codi 11-26 years old and would like to arian, cynhaliodd 6 o aelodau BFFs join Clwb Ifanc Ffermwyr Llangoed Y grŵp yn dathlu ar ôl cyrraedd copa’r Wyddfa Llangoed, a 6 o gyfeillion a theulu, Young Farmers Club please feel The group celebrate on reaching the summit of Snowdon daith gerdded noddedig i gopa’r (via Delyth Jones) free to come along on a Monday Wyddfa ar 27ain Awst 2019, a between 7.30pm and 9.00pm. We’re chodwyd £600 i’w galluogi i looking forward to another busy gyfrannu at brynu offer diffibrilio year! ychwanegol.
(Amy Pritchard) Siôn Lloyd Swyddog Gweithgareddau Awyr Agored Urdd
CLWB GARDDIO LLANGOED Gobaith Cymru oedd yn arwain y grŵp, esgyn o lwybr PYG ym Mhen GARDENING CLUB y Gwryd, sef y llwybr byrraf, gydag We’re now well into autumn and so esgyniad caled terfynol, ac yna far the weather has been quite mild. disgyn ar lwybr Llanberis, un o’r
llwybrau hiraf (ond lleiaf serth) a’r We were let down by our advertised Cyflwyno’r offer diffribilio i’r grŵp, ar ôl cwblhau’r daith prysuraf. Camp anhygoel gan ein speaker last month, Lyn Gallagher gerdded noddedig pobl ifanc, fe’i gwerthfawrogwyd gan and Jean Whitehead stepped into The group presented with defibrillator equipment on rieni. the breach. completion of the sponsored walk (via Delyth Jones) Diolch i Awen Dodd, swyddog ymroddedig sy’n ymwneud â’r Lyn gave an informative and informal illustrated talk on flowers prosiect am ei chyfraniad gwerthfawr. in art, with particular reference to Botticelli’s Primavera: when studied closely this painting is full of flowers, and we had great Bu i Tomos ar ran Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau fun trying to identify them 500 years later! Jean demonstrated Ambiwlans Cymru ac Achub Calon y Dyffryn sy’n helpu
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Dyfais yw diffibriliwr sy’n rhoi sioc drydan uchel i galon rhywun Plant sy’n angen brechiaf fflw gyda ni: byddwn yn brechu: sy’n cael ataliad y galon. Gelwir y sioc ynni uchel hon yn Holl blant o 2 oed hyd at oedran ysgol gynradd. diffibriliad, ac mae’n rhan hanfodol o geisio achub bywyd rhywun sy’n cael ataliad y galon. Plant hyn gyda chyflyrau iechyd hirdymor (y tu allan i oedran ysgol gynradd a hyd at 17 oed) e.e. clefyd siwgr, Llais Ni Youth Council: a group of young people of between asthma, clefyd y galon a’r ysgyfaint. 11-17 years old have played their part fundraising to locate Bydd holl blant ysogolion gynradd yn cael y frechiad yn yr several defibrillators in the Llangoed area. They’re members of ysgol – byddwch yn siwr i ddychwelyd y ffurflen ganiatad i’r 'BFFs Llangoed', a community group on Anglesey. This ysgol cyn gynted a phosibl. Chwistrell trwynol i fyny’r resulted from a decision by Pont y Brenin Hub to donate the ffroenau idi hwn fel arfer – felly dim nodwyddau! profit from their Bingo night to purchase a defibrillator for the Village Hall, followed by other fund-raising activities to Cysylltwch â ni os ydych yn ansicr a ddylai eich plentyn gael y frechiad: purchase additional equipment for the Primary School in Llangoed, and the Penmon Coastguard Rescue Team. Canolfan Iechyd Biwmares 01248 810818 As part of their fund-raising activities, on 27 August 2019 six members of BFFs Llangoed held a sponsored walk with Have you booked your flu jab yet? Please don’t delay. friends and family to the summit of Snowdon. They raised There are three different vaccines: one for patients aged 65 £600, enabling them to contribute to the purchase of additional years or more, one for patients under 65 who are at risk and a defibrillator equipment. nasal spray for children under 18. We are holding separate clinics for these to make it easier. Siôn Lloyd, Urdd Gobaith Cymru’s Outdoor Activities Officer, led the group on the walk, ascending from the PYG track at We recommend that you have a flu jab free on the NHS and Pen y Pass, the shortest route, with a tough final ascent, and we have ordered your vaccine in for you if you meet any one descending on the Llanberis Path, one of the longest routes of these categories: (but least steep), and the busiest. It was a fantastic achievement by our young people, and appreciated by Aged 65 years and over, adults with BMI of 40 or above, parents. pregnant women, people living in long-stay care homes, carers (in receipt of carer’s allowance or main carer). Thanks go to Awen Dodd, a conscientious officer involved with Members of voluntary organisations providing planned first this project, for her valuable contribution. aid, Community First responders. On behalf of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust and Chronic respiratory disease (includes asthmatics who Achub Calon y Dyffryn, which helps communities raise funds continuously use steroid inhalers), chronic heart disease, to buy and maintain their own defibrillators, Tomos presented chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, chronic the equipment to the group on completion of the sponsored neurological disease, diabetes, immunosuppressed due to walk. disease or treatment, asplenia or dysfunction of spleen.
A defibrillator is a device that gives a high-energy electric Children needing a flu vaccination with us: we will be shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest. This vaccinating: high-energy shock is called defibrillation, and is an essential All children from age 2 to primary school age and older part in trying to save the life of someone who is in cardiac Children with long-term health conditions (above primary arrest. school age up to 17 years) i.e., diabetes, asthma, heart (Delyth Jones) disease or lung disease.
All primary school children will have the vaccine in school;
GWNEWCH APWYNTIAD AM FRECHIAD FFLIW! BOOK ensure you return the school consent form ASAP. This is a nasal spray squirted up both nostrils – so no needles! YOUR FLU JAB! Please contact us if you are unsure if your child should have Ydych wedi trefnu apwyntiad bellach i gael brechiad ffliw? the vaccine: Peidiwch ac oedi. Mae yna tri gwahanol frechiad: un ar gyfer cleifion dros 65, y llall i gleifion o dan 65, a chwistrell fyny’r Beaumaris Health Centre trwyn i blant o dan 18. Rydym yn rhedeg glinigau ar wahan i 01248 810818 wneud pathau’n haws. (Joanne Andreou)
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GIG os ydych yn perthyn i unrhyw un o’r grwpiau hyn, ac LLANGOED WI rydym yn cadw eich brechiad i chi: August: there was no meeting. Pawb dros 65, oedolion gyda BMI o 40 neu fwy, os yr ydych yn feichiog, gofalwyr (sy’n derbyn lwfans gofalwyr September: at the meeting on 4 September our speaker, neu’n brif ofalwr). Anita Summer, gave us a great and informative talk on Candle Pawb sy’n byw mewn cartrefi preswyl neu nyrsio, pobl sy’n Alchemy and what it involves, including moulds, wicks, types, gwirfoddoli mewn maes iechyd, Cymorth Cyntaf, ac shapes, colours and scents. Ymatebwyr Cyntaf Cymunedol. The winners of the competition were (1st) Miriam Hughes, (2nd) Cyflwr cronig ar y frest, (yn cynnwys asthma pan fo’n Jean Whitehead and (3rd) Jerry Wainwright. ddigon difrifol bod angen meddyginiaeth arno), cyflwr cronig ar y galon, diabetes/clefyd siwgr, cyflwr cronig ar yr aren, October: at the meeting on 2 October we (continued on page 8)
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[email protected] 7 OF 12 The Puffin NUMBER 29 NOVEMBER 2019 had a 'dainty' tea party, with bite- raffle. The Deputy Mayor and the sized sandwiches and savouries, Chairman of the Town Council and delicious little cakes made by Allotments Sub-Committee also the members. The business of the attended. day was discussion of the Committee Member Steve Blight programme for 2020. came up with the idea of the Picnic The winners of the competition were on the Plot as an alternative to the (1st) Miriam Hughes, (2nd) Margaret annual BBQ, one of the events Charles and (3rd) Jenny Alexander. organised by the Beaumaris Allotments Society for its members. The next meeting will be on He said, 'It has been a real success, 6 November; it will include our AGM with everyone having a lovely day and a Beetle Drive.
and having the chance to catch up Plotholders relaxing in the sun (Jill Anker) Some news: our WI and others with their fellow plotholders. It was across Anglesey have been also good to see so many associate involved in a year-long project with members (those on the waiting list) the Woodland Trust, a great project come along to experience for with which to be involved. On 12 themselves what we get up to when October there was a display in we are not working on our plots.' Llangefni Town Hall of our work with The last event of the year, the trees: Anne Lindley and Christine BAAFTAs (Beaumaris Annual Newsham had been monitoring Awards for the Allotments), was due some of the trees around Penmon to take place last month. You’ll be Priory, Penmon: measuring, able to read all about the event in photographing, checking the leaves, The Puffin early next year. and surveying the land around each one in terms of vegetation, insects, (Jill Anker) and birds using and living in them. Having fun making masks (Jill Anker)
Meetings: meetings begin at LLANGOED OPEN GARDENS 2.00pm on the first Wednesday of 2020 each month in Llangoed Village Hall. We are a lively group of mixed Would you like to be part of an open ages, so, ladies, do feel welcome to garden event for charity in Llangoed join us. next year, either to open your garden or helping with organising/ (Anne Lindley) refreshments, etc.? The idea is to have a circular trail that people
PICNIC ON THE PLOT could follow round the village, visiting half a dozen gardens and On 8 September, Beaumaris ending with a cream tea in the Allotment plotholders and guests Village Hall. enjoyed a lovely autumn day on the site, with everyone bringing a picnic A few gardeners have already and many also bringing delicious indicated that they would like to do cakes to share. One highly- this, but if we can make this a organised new plotholder, Ann, community event we might be able Ann’s Allotment Café (Jill Anker) to get a little funding and perhaps even set up a pop-up café offering tea and coffee to everyone. even raise funds for something like a bench for the village hall as well Keevan gave everyone a taste of as for a local charity. We don’t his "champagne" made from his expect National Trust standards, but Seyval Blanc grapes, which was hopefully an interesting variety of much appreciated. In addition, real gardens to be shared and plotholders were able to try the cider appreciated! A meeting will be made from the windfalls that were arranged for later in the year if gathered from the site last year. there’s sufficient interest, so please Made by local cider company, e-mail me at wendy.davies6@ Jaspells, there was a choice of two mypostoffice.co.uk. ciders, both of which were delicious.
The many children who came along SEIRIOL MENS SHED IS UP AND enjoyed colouring and making RUNNING! masks, several of whom wore them for the rest of the day. They also We’re looking for more members to enjoyed playing Jenga. The Mayor join our convivial and varied group. of Beaumaris, Cllr Clay Theakston, The Mayor of Beaumaris, Cllr Clay Theakston, draws the You might be content to just chat ended the day by drawing the free raffle (Jill Anker) over a cuppa, perhaps with a game
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The Puffin NUMBER 29 NOVEMBER 2019 8 OF 12 www.facebook.com/groups/llangoed of darts or dominoes. We make NIGHT HUNTERS things: we have to generate some money, enough to cover our In an effort to ignore all the overheads, and we want to be as grotesque paraphernalia of today’s useful as we can to our community Halloween now displayed in our as well. Some of us are a bit frail, shops, I’ve been turning my mind to others are more robust, so we look the truly wild characters out there in after each other. Don't be shy: come our countryside: creatures with and join us, have some fun. nocturnal or crepuscular habits that really do hunt at night or at dusk. To learn more about us, pop in on a In particular, people have social meeting, Thursday mornings, traditionally associated owls and 10.00am-12.00 noon, at Pont y bats with a fear of the dark and Brenin Hub. You will be welcome. 'things that go bump in the night', (Mike Thomas) despite the fact that these two
groups of animals fly and hunt
almost soundlessly in the darkness. FOOTBALL UPDATE... Tom Zalot, playing for Llangoed FC in 2019, wearing Maybe that’s what actually unnerves Midland Tapas’s kit (via Owen Williams) CPD Llanfairpwll FC: Arron Fôn people: mysterious, rarely seen in
Evans’s followers have voted for daylight, they’ve been regarded as their Anglesey League Player of the 'spooky', or even as symbols of ill- Month for September and are happy omen, creatures of another, darker to announce that the winner is CPD world.
Llanfairpwll FC’s exciting youngster, Fortunately, much more positive Tom Zalot. images of owls and bats have been The 16-year-old forward arrived developing as more people have from Llangoed in August, and has learnt about them over the last few more than lived up to expectations, decades. Their real nature and bagging nine goals to date, extraordinary behaviour have including five during the month of become more widely known and August. A fantastic effort, Tom, well appreciated through natural history done! films and by more direct
Llangoed & District FC: the Club’s involvement, observation and conservation projects. It’s good to Christmas Raffle will soon take see now the cute-faced, smiling felt place. Please support the Club by bats that are often on display for buying tickets, at the Bold Arms, Blooming on Beaumaris seafront: a boatful of flowers Halloween, alongside the usual Church Street, Beaumaris, from (via Owen Williams) gruesome skulls and skeletons...no Committee Members, and from more devilish, drooling vampires, other vendors... keep your eyes please! Local Bat Groups around open! Prizes have been donated by, the country involve hundreds of among others, Ribride/Seawake, people in counting, monitoring, the Midland Tapas and Pier House studying and protecting bats and Bistro. their breeding and hibernation If you’d like to join the Club as a roosts. Live owl displays are often Committee Member, e-mail owen seen now, with children encouraged [email protected] for more to stroke or hold them, although I do information. wonder if birds most active at night
(Owen Williams) or dusk, with their huge, sensitive eyes, should have to spend so
much time out in broad daylight. BEAUMARIS IN BLOOM 2019 To quell another myth, not all owls This year, Beaumaris picked up a are actually nocturnal: even in this silver gilt award during the prize- country, where seven species of giving ceremony in Ystradgynlais. wild owl have been recorded since 2020 is also looking promising for the 19th century, only the tawny owl the Bloomers as they have been is entirely nocturnal. This is the asked to represent Wales in the classic owl of eerie hooting calls Britain in Bloom competition, and after dark, which can often be heard also to host the prize-giving in gardens and roof-tops in weekend next September. Beaumaris, as well as in the Mrs Menna Wellings in Liverpool (née Doyle; she used to surrounding trees and woodland. If you’d like to join the Bloomers, e- live at 10 Mona Terrace) sent this photograph to The Puffin. Beatrix Potter’s lovely illustrations in mail [email protected] for It was taken on 15 June 1957 on a coach outing from Squirrel Nutkin depict a grumpy more information. Llangoed...how fashions have changed! L-R: Menna Doyle, Margaret (?), Tegrudd (?) Ann (Bryn tawny owl disturbed in its daytime (Owen Williams) Coch) tree-hole.
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Barn owls and long-eared owls are largely nocturnal, but do and derelict buildings can be very useful. They need darkness, sometimes hunt in daylight. Short-eared owls often hunt in high humidity, cool conditions (generally below 10°C) and a daylight, but especially at dawn and dusk, so could be lack of disturbance to survive the winter. During this time their described as crespuscular. body temperatures drop close to that of their surrounding environment and their heart-rate and breathing slow right Another night-hunting owl is the little owl, but this is not a th down. native species, having been introduced from Europe in the 19 century. It can sometimes be seen, fixing you with its bold You might spot a flying bat on a mild Halloween, but most will stare, on its daytime perches: branches, fence-posts or rocks. be hanging upside down in their hibernacula well before Christmas comes. Owls, with their soft, dense plumage and super-sharp senses, are silent The following organisations for more when hunting so they can accurately information and details of local locate and surprise their prey. Small activities: mammals such as mice, voles and North Wales Wildlife Trust shrews, small birds and insects are https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust. the mainstay of their diet. org.uk/
Owls and many of their prey species The RSPB are active throughout the winter. https://www.rspb.org.uk/
Many of our native mammals are Gwynedd Bat Group hunters and are active at night: Tawny owl (Strix aluco) in flight (BBC Natural World) http://www.gwyneddbats.org.uk/ foxes, badgers, stoats, weasels, (Roz Hattey) polecats, otters, bats and the several species of shrew. Only the bats are entirely insectivorous and AQUAPONICS: OUR they hunt almost exclusively on the COMMUNITY, OUR FUTURE wing. They hunt flying insects at Some of may know me, Mark dusk and during the hours of Warwick, and my partner, Jo darkness using their acute hearing Alexander, from local events where and, primarily, their sophisticated we demonstrate and teach spoon echo-location system. This natural carving. One of my other passions sonar enables them to locate, track is in a food-growing system called and catch their prey with Brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritius) in flight aquaponics, which I have been extraordinary speed and accuracy. (The Guardian) researching for about 10 years. I Bats produce loud, very high-frequency 'shouts' of sound, and first became interested in aquaponics through reading an use their very sensitive hearing to pick up the faint echoes, article on the Gaza strip and how the people there were being also high-frequency, that bounce back from a moth or a tiny taught how to overcome food and water insecurity in the area. insect. In this way, they can identify and locate the prey from a If you’ve never heard of aquaponics it may be simply distance. They can also discern the insect’s size and whether described as a farming system that grows organic food its body is hard or soft. through developing a sustainable symbiotic relationship between freshwater fish and plants. The farmer’s job is to The long-eared bat’s huge ears give it super-sensitive hearing create the ecosystem and maintain a balance between all the and as part of its echo-location system enable it to locate and parts of this system. catch insects sitting on the surface of leaves. One small pipistrelle bat will eat about four thousand midges or other It all starts with the fish, and healthy fish must never be small insects a night, so welcome them to overcrowded, and the water needs to be filtered rainwater. your barbeque! The water from the tank goes into a Watching a colony of fifty or more solids separator to remove the poo bats emerging from a nursery (this is one of the biggest (breeding) roost at dusk as they go misconceptions about aquaponics: out into the night to feed is a many people think that you grow fascinating experience. Tracking food with fish poo, and it puts them them in the dark with night-viewing off the idea). Next, the clear water equipment or a bat-detector, which goes to another filter called a bio- converts the high frequency calls to filter. This is where all the magic sounds we can hear, is even more and science happens: bacteria rewarding. transform any harmful ammonia and
Unlike the swifts, swallows and nitrites into nitrates that plants can martins which migrate to warmer use in grow-beds specifically climes as our flying insect designed to give the plants the best populations diminish with winter’s growing conditions whilst filtering the water for the fish. approach, our bats have evolved an Overview of the Aquaponic Nitrogen Cycle alternative strategy: they hibernate. Even though this system is new to As temperatures fall, they seek out traditional hibernation current form it was used thousands of years ago by the Aztec roosts such as caves, old mines, large hollow trees or a range and the Chinese peoples. There are problems that we face of suitable sites in or on the outside of buildings. Cellars, attics today in modern societies, like the control, centralisation and
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The Puffin NUMBER 29 NOVEMBER 2019 10 OF 12 www.poblseiriol.co.uk/newsletters/ distribution of food. The depletion of Pwrpas Cwlwm Seiriol yw cysylltu minerals and healthy bacteria in pobl â’u hamgylchedd naturiol, tra soils coupled with the demand on bod WiciMôn yn gweithio gyda the water supply make aquaponics phobl ifanc i gynyddu nifer yr the perfect solution to feeding our erthyglau ar y Wikipedia Cymraeg. growing population. The link to a Trwy WiciNatur, roedd y plant yn short video, Aquaponics Explained, gallu dysgu am fywyd gwyllt a that explains the basic concept, is chadwraeth natur ynghyd â datblygu given below. sgiliau pwysig fel ymchwilio a chodio trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Cymerodd y plant ran mewn tair (FAO) has created a book, Small sesiwn ryngweithiol, y cyntaf oedd scale aquaponic food production: cyflwyniad i Wicipedia a
Integrated fish and plant farming, Delyth and Duncan at Llangoed, at the start of the woodland gwarchodfeydd natur lleol yn yr that is free to download (288 pages, walk from Llangoed to Lleiniog (Delyth Phillipps) ystafell ddosbarth, roedd yr ail yn so be patient) from its website for cynnwys ymweliad â Gwarchodfa anyone who wants to set up a Natur Leol Aberlleiniog yn Llangoed small-scale system. a’r drydedd yn gyflwyniad i godio a
My reason for writing this article is mewnbynnu data. Ymunodd cyn- that we’re looking for a small piece warden cefn gwlad a naturiaethwr of land (c.½ acre-5 acres) in the adnabyddus o Gymru, Duncan Caim/Penmon/Llangoed area to Brown, â ni ar gyfer y sesiynau i start a medium-scale community rannu ei wybodaeth a’i brofiad gyda’r plant. aquaponics garden.
We’ve recently bought a commercial Os hoffech ddysgu mwy am polytunnel and want to get started WiciNatur, gwyliwch y ffilm fer a on a local project. As well as grëwyd gyda’r disgyblion ar sianel YouTube Cwlwm Seiriol. Mae yna growing lovely organic food we want to teach others to grow their own Delyth in Ysgol Llangoed, talking about wildlife and nature hefyd fideos o rai o’r conservation (Delyth Phillipps) gweithgareddau eraill sydd wedi fresh fish and vegetables with aquaponics on their own property or digwydd eleni. I ddarganfod mwy in partnership with our project. am ddigwyddiadau a gweithgareddau Cwlwm Seiriol Building resilient and sustainable ewch i’n gwefan, https://www. communities starts with education. mentermon.com/prosiectau/ Without a local and sustainable food cwlwm-seiriol/, a dilynwch ni ar source you cannot have a resilient Facebook a Twitter. community, and it is my hope that someone in our local area who Nod ein digwyddiad nesaf fydd i owns land that isn’t being used to its godi ymwybyddiaeth o bwysigrwydd potential will sell it for this important Awyr Dywyll ac effeithiau niweidiol project. llygredd golau ar fioamrywiaeth.
For more information, etc., please WiciNatur project: the WiciNatur telephone me on 01248 490198. project is a collaboration between Visiting the Aberlleiniog Local Nature Reserve in Llangoed two Menter Môn projects: Cwlwm Aquaponics Explained (Delyth Phillipps) Seiriol and WiciMôn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 516iHfT8DHU&feature=youtu.be It was developed to enable year 6 (Mark Warwick) pupils from local schools to learn
more about nature in their area whilst also learning important WICINATUR information technology skills. The Prosiect WiciNatur: mae prosiect aim was to provide valuable WiciNatur yn gydweithrediad rhwng experiences for pupils that they will dau brosiect Menter Môn: Cwlwm be able to benefit from as they Seiriol a WiciMôn. progress to secondary school and beyond. Fe’i datblygwyd i alluogi disgyblion blwyddyn 6 o ysgolion lleol i ddysgu The purpose of Cwlwm Seiriol is to mwy am fyd natur yn eu hardal tra connect people with their natural hefyd yn dysgu sgiliau technoleg Getting hands-on with wildlife (Delyth Phillipps) environment, whilst WiciMôn works gwybodaeth pwysig. Y nod oedd with young people to increase the darparu profiadau gwerthfawr i number of articles on the Welsh- ddisgyblion y byddant yn gallu elwa language Wikipedia. Through ohonynt wrth iddynt symud ymlaen WiciNatur, the children were able to i’r ysgol uwchradd a thu hwnt. learn about wildlife and nature
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