Kingfishers and walking with dinosaurs

Spotting river royalty - a project to count Kingfishers on the Teifi. Plans to extend an area of outstanding natural beauty in north east Wales receive a mixed response and walking with the dinosaurs who left their mark in Wales

Last updated: 30 January 2011

Country Focus - Sunday 30th January at 07.00am presented by Rachael Garside repeated Monday 31st at 5.30am

They've got to be one of our most attractive birds - Kingfishers with their distinctive bright blue and orange plumage live on our riversides yet they're also quite illusive. If you spot one - the Teifi Rivers Trust would like to know for a new project aimed at finding out more about these distinctive birds. Geoff can be emailed: TeifiWildlife@gmail.com

A four month consultation on plans to extend an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north east Wales comes to an end this week. The proposal is to add southern parts of the Clwydian Range, the Vale of Llangollen and parts of the Dee Valley onto the existing Clwydian Range AONB. It's thought the new status would boost tourism in the area, but not everyone thinks it's a good idea

We walk in the woodlands on the historic Stackpole Estate in Pembrokeshire which are undergoing a major programme of clearance work. Invasive shrubs which have smothered parts of the National Trust woodlands and their remains are being removed and native trees replanted to gradually restore the ancient landscape.

Around five years ago a slab of rock containing several dinosaur footprints was chiselled off the rocks in the Vale of Glamorgan before being sold in shops and being on the internet. Police have recovered most of the fossils but just last summer a member of the Countryside Council for Wales' Earth Science team happened to spot another one of them in a shop on the Llyn - that too was recovered and is now in the National Museum. But what is the impact of these crimes ? Rachael James takes a walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.