Cardiff shares its borders with several counties and every now and then we join up with KWT colleagues to look at a cross border activity. Earlier this week, I joined up with Ian Harvey, KWT's Tidy Town's officer for the Vale of Glamorgan to look at a joint Vale/Cardiff Event for this summer. It was also an opportunity to meet a Vale Biodiversity Officer to verify the signs of an otter. Ian works very closely with Llamau over in the Vale and he took them out along a river looking for tell tale signs of otter spraints deposited on elevated mounds or stones. One of the Llamau vols found a pile and this was confirmed by the Biodiversity Officer on our visit.
A little further away, we had a look and agreed a potential site to build an otter house, called a holt with one of Ian's groups.
We took a walk then to the flyover of the A4232 where it passes over the Ely. This was stinking with rubbish which we think is a result of car drivers chucking it out of their windows with some of this blowing away. A massive job for a massive group of fit volunteers especially with the steep banks to contend with.
Slideshow of spraints and the litter:
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