Coed Rheidol National Nature Reserve
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Overview
It’s hard to beat a springtime visit to the woodlands of Coed Rheidol, near Devil’s Bridge, particularly in May when the bluebells are in flower. The reserve’s woodland is also good for other spring wildflowers, such as lesser celandines, primroses, common violets, wood anemones, and, in the wet flushes, golden saxifrage. Later in the summer yellow pimpernel, common cow-wheat, Welsh poppy, heather and bilberry take over, while there are impressive autumn displays of fungi. Nearly 80 species of birds have been recorded in the woodland. Breeding birds include bullfinches, pied flycatchers, redstarts, tree pipits, and various warblers. Birds of prey you can expect to see in the area include red kites, buzzards and the occasional goshawk. The Rheidol and Ystwyth rivers have stocks of resident wild brown trout, sea trout and salmon, which go to sea each year to return in spring and summer to spawn. You might even see the shy otter.
About the area
The name ‘Ceredigion’ takes a bit of explanation. The town of Cardigan gives its name to the surrounding bay, but the county now uses the Welsh word for Cardiganshire – Ceredigion, pronounced with a ‘dig’.
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