It will also be the place for you to post your sightings and thoughts of wildlife in Wales, as well as a place to ask questions which I'll hope to answer or find someone who can. So be sure to get stuck in and fire some pictures and comments back to me on the blog.
Just to introduce myself. I'm Jody Bourton, I've always been passionate about wildlife and still feel that one of my proudest moments was building a pond in my garden when I was a kid. I grew up in Cardiff furtling around in the steams of Roath and the River Taff and more often than not finding more trolleys and traffic cones than wildlife!
From Cardiff I headed up north to Scotland to study zoology thereafter having a brief stint in Japan teaching English and getting to know their amazing beetles and insects.
During the last four years I've worked at the BBC Natural History Unit, working on a variety of projects including World On The Move, a series looking at animal migrations.
I recently enjoyed a spell back with one of my first loves: furtling about in rivers, working with the Wye and Usk Foundation, a conservation charity on the banks of the river Wye in Builth Wells.
Now I'm back at the BBC again working on the latest series of Autumnwatch.
This blog should be a good place to come to find out what going on in nature's calendar. I'll also be hoping to provide listings for any wildlife events happening across the country. And being on the web I thought it would be fun to link to any interesting websites that are out there, (we want your favourite sites too). So hopefully it won't be just a blog but also a useful resource.
So that's about it from me, enough blatherings - let's get out there!
This week's wildlife on the world wide web:
A Japanese website I thought you might like
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 (21 June-14 September, National Museum of Wales)
Second Annual International Bog Day (Lake Vrynwy)
Badger Watch - Dinefwr Park and Castle
