Flight's of Fancy Traditional Cache
GizmoKyla: As the owner has not responded to our previous log requesting that they check this cache we are archiving it.
Please note that as this cache has now been archived by a reviewer or HQ staff it will NOT be unarchived.
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The cache is one of three in this area each designed to offer you the chance to see or learn something about the immediate area and its history. The cache has been placed with the kind permission of the Pembrokeshire Wildlife Trust officer and the Pembrokeshire team leader for the Countryside Council for Wales.
This cache is a small micro cache containing a log and pencil.
Find the cache and sign the log, then if you want to answer the following questions and then have your photo taken feeding the ducks or swans. All the information can be found close to the cache site. Remember take some bread with you for the birds. Have fun!
1. How many birds are on the sign?
2. By the gate how many animals are you told about?
Please email your answers to The Puffins and upload your photo with your cache log.
While you are here look out for the other cache, ‘Down the Line‘.
This is a nature reserve so please, please take your rubbish away and bin it.
Beware this is a very popular muggle spot. Early morning visits tend to see the most wild life & mullet can be seen around the pontoons at most states of the tide.
History and Nature.
It was in April 1856, when the South Wales Railway, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, officially opened at Neyland. Before the railway came, the population was less than 200. By 1861 it was over a thousand. It was hoped that Neyland would become a significant port but that was never really achieved, although steamship routes were operated between Neyland and Ireland, Portugal and Brasil. Ireland ferry services transferred to Fishguard when the harbour was developed there at which time Neyland became a fishing port.
The railway line closed in 1964 and has since become The Brunel Cycleway, which follows the route of an old railway line to Johnston and continues on a more winding but still off-road route all the way to Haverfordwest. Westfield Pill, alongside the cycleway, is a teeming nature reserve run by the wildlife trust for west Wales.
The Westfieldpill is a dammed pill whose water grades from fresh in the upper reaches to saline near the bund. A fine place to view waterbirds like Little Grebes, Ducks, Waders and Kingfishers. Woodland birds also accessible in the flanking trees. Night Heron, Hoopoe and Temminck’s Stint have been recorded.
Additional Hints
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Haqrearngu gur unatvatf ohg guvax pyvss! :)
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