Our Land

Rewilding

Our surrounding land and property make up 5 acres, the fields have been grazing pasture for as far back as we know and although we have traditional Pembrokeshire banks dividing the fields the wildlife was limited. To encourage a diversity of species back to the land we have planted over 1800 native trees, and scattered wildflowers seeds to encourage meadow areas. Other than this we are allowing nature to do as it wishes and simply maintain the paths for our guests to enjoy the land as it finds its own balance. 

Luckily we are within 10 minutes walk to Llangloffan Fen, a floodplain and Site of Special Scientific Interest so the migration of species is happening more quickly than we could have hoped for. 

Birds

When we set out we wanted to mitigate the disruption to the residing wildlife, since the beginning we have built all shapes and sizes of bird boxes. The Barn Owls and Tawny Owls use the larger boxes, the Great Tits and Blue Tits seem to love to their little boxes but a woodpecker has claimed and redesigned one of them. The moorhens eventually won the battle for the duck house and are now permanent residents. The Wagtails favour the wood store over anything we have built them, except the discarded old roof slates during the renovation, they had brood after brood from the slate piles. 

The fledgling woodland is an oasis for wildlife. To name just a few of our favourites, we have 8 species of bat including greater horseshoes, barn owls, tawny owls, stoats, badgers, weasels, moles, hedgehogs, rabbits and foxes, there was supposed sighting of a deer once but we are not convinced.

The trail camera is moved frequently to catch sight of what’s happening and provides us with a small slice of the life that exists here. 

We reinstated the spring fed millpond as one of the first projects to lay the ground source heat loops. It had been filled with slurry and overgrown with trees and shrubs. It didn’t take long to settle back into it’s life as a wildlife pond and has proved a great place to watch the swallows swooping over the water and in the evening the bats take over.

The pond is a focal point for lots of dragonflies and damselflies, we have Emperor, Yellow Ringed, Southern Hawker, Demoiselle, and Broad Chasers amongst others. There's copious newts, frogs and toads here too. 

The abundance of grass and brambles gives ideal habitat for butterflies and moths. We have copius Ringlet, Speckled Wood, Orange Tip and Painted Ladies early in the year; and later Peacock, Large Skipper, Cabbage White, Red Admiral, Green Hairstreak. For moths by far our local favourite is the Elephant Hawk Moth.