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Cycling through South Pembrokeshire. Exploring little known roads some byways never seen before. Cowparsley strewn lanes, swans at Carew castle.Sunshine at Manorbier castle and beach.Passed Pembroke castle. Nettles galore at this time of year.93 miles and counting in June but some colder months cyclong as well.Cycled up some hills never thought able to get up. Views of Preseli hills , tidal Mill at Carew and Cresswell Quay en route.

Run and exploration over the island. Common blue butterfly and cinnamon moth seen. Explored 13th century chapel and priory remains. Saw plenty of cow parsley and a pheasant running in nature area. Looked for red squirrels but none today. Picnic and play on the beach afterwards.

On Thursday 27th June (a very hot day) the juniors set off up to Glenridding Common to carry out a survey of vegetation on the peat bog above Greenside Mines. We found a healthy bog with very little exposed peat and plenty of vegetation covering it. We found sphagnum moss, cotton grass and even sundew, along with heather. We were surprised by the depth of the peat, almost 2 metres in places. We also found a newt in the stream we too measurements from, and a frog. The water was slightly acidic but clean. We visited the junipers that are being protected from sheep grazing and the beautiful shimmering Aspens. This was a great way to undertake our conservation work, but also a new place to explore and discover.

Tuesday 25th of June saw the juniors heading up the Ennerdale valley to explore Stair Knott which is an area of common land inside the wider area of Wild Ennerdale. Wild Ennerdale is a huge area of land which is jointly owned by The National Trust, United Utilities and the Forestry Commission. Their vision is, "to allow the evolution of Ennerdale as a wild valley, for the benefit of people, relying more on natural processes to shape its landscape and ecology". One of the main things they have done is to restrict grazing to just a handful of cattle over the whole area. We are going to compare how the common land area within in it contrasts with another area of common nearby which is still intensively grazed by commoners. Today was our chance to carry out surveys to show what flora and fauna exists at Stair Knott.

We found a huge variety of different species. Over 50 that we knew the names of and lots more we didn't! We found lots of flora such as orchids, including a very rare bee orchid, heather, bilberry, crowberry, tormentil, heath bedstraw and thyme amongst many others. The fauna we found were things like bumble bees such as Bombus Lucorum, Bombus Lapidarius and an unusual cuckoo bee (a bee that lays it's eggs in another bumble bees nest just like the bird does called Bombus Sylvestris. Best of all was a bug Saul found. We didn't know what it was but Mr Moore got a picture of it and showed it to his wife, she didn't know either but knew an expert who did. It was a leafhopper called Planaphrodes bifasciata. It was only the 33rd time it had been spotted in Cumbria and 25 of those previous records were from before 1938!!! We discovered Stair Knott was full of wildlife!

We followed the medium length orange trail around the nature reserve. We saw baby moorhens, female small blue butterflies, dragonflies and lots of wildflowers.