Close up image of a sea thrift a pink coastal flower. With the sea in the background.

#MarineMonday 🌊

🌸 Sea thrift is known as clustog Fair in Welsh.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Meaning Mary's pillow! 🛏️ It's a sign of spring flowering between April-July each year. 📅

#CoastalFlower #WelshLanguage

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊

🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 33 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝 Volunteers had to deal with a range of weather with a few surveys abandoned due to torrential rain. ⛈️ Dolphins were spotted throughout the week. 🐬

#CitizenScience

Seal swimming through seaweed.

Give your Will the seal of approval 🦭

Thanks to our membership of the National Free Wills Network, you have the opportunity to have your Will written by a solicitor based in your local area, for free.

Visit welshwildlife.org/gift-in-will to find out more.

📸 Cathy Lewis

Happy #NationalDolphinDay🥳🐬It's dolphinitely the best day of the year! 💙

🤔 Discover which species of dolphin is your spirit animal and comment with the answer 👇

#DolphinDay #CBWildlife #SpiritAnimal

Rubbish piled up on the beach. Including food wrappers, buckets and spades and a filled dog poo bag

🚮 Rubbish collected from New Quay Harbour beach one morning this week! 🤯

If you're visiting our coast please respect the marine environment, wildlife and the local community. 💙 Leave nothing but your footprints. 👣

🙏 Thanks to #MarineConservation volunteer Graham for cleaning up the beach. 🤩

Photo of bottlenose dolphins. A mother and calf pair with the calves face seen coming out of the water

😍Photo of a mother and calf taken by one of our #MarineConservation volunteers Samantha!🐬

#CBWildlife #DolphinWatching

🦦 This otter was spotted swimming in front of the harbour wall last week! 😍

Eurasian otters are occasionally spotted foraging in the sea, close to the shore. 🌊

#OtterSighting #CBWildlife

🪣A few highlights from our Seashore Safari event yesterday! 🏖️

#RockPooling #SeashoreSafari #CBWildlife

👀 Dolphins spotted on yesterday's 5-7pm survey!🐬

#DolphinWatching #CBWildlife

👋 Today we're saying thank you and farewell to our #MarineConservation Intern Bea 🐬

🐧 Bea joined the team as a volunteer in 2024! 🤩 She returned to CBMWC as a member of staff in April 2025. 🌊 Thank you for everything and good luck with your next adventure. 💙

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 24 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝 Dolphins were spotted on a few surveys but the highlight of the week was a curious otter that popped up right next to the harbour wall!

✨ Caption Contest!🐬

🤷‍♀️ What caption would you post alongside this adorable mother and calf 😍 Comment below!
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#Dolphin #BottlenoseDolphin #MarineMammal #LivingSeas #MarineConservation #CBMWC #WTSWW #NewQuay #NewQuayWales #CardiganBay #GronfaRhwydweithiauNatur #NatureNetworksFund

📢 Say hello to our first seasonal volunteers of 2026! 👋

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Welcome to the #MarineConservation team Cairenn, Ella, Sofia, Freya, Beth, Ceri, Eden and Samantha! 🌊💙

#PodSqaud #SeasonalVolunteers

👩‍🏫On Friday our #Marine Conservation team ran a careers workshos for pupils at Ysgol Bro Teifi🔎🐬

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Hopefully we inspired some future marine biologists and conservationists! 🌊

#CareersTalk #MarineBiolgyCareers

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊

🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 10 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝Bottlenose dolphins were spotted on Monday and an Atlantic grey seal was seen on Friday. 🐬

#CitizenScience

Spring has Sprung! 💮🌱

📆 The #SpringEquinox marks the start of astrological spring. 🎇 Comment below with your favourite things about Spring by the coast. 👇 🏖️

#FirstDayOfSpring

🐦 An oystercatcher's beak grows at a rate of 0.4mm a day! A similar rate to human finger nails. 💅

This compensates for wear and tear from opening their shelled prey. 🦪

#Oystercatchers #BeakGrowth #CoastalBird

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊

🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 5 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝Another quiet week with dolphins spotted during the 7am survey on Monday 🐬

#CitizenScience

🤔 Ydych chi erioed wedi meddwl sut rydym yn astudio deiet dolffiniaid? 🐬

Rydym wedi creu animeiddiad byr, wedi’i adrodd gan Iolo Williams, sy’n plymio i mewn i’n prosiect #DolphinDietDetectives! 💩 🧪 🔬

Edrychwch ar yr animeiddiad yma 👉 champ.ly/0Or7kAoR

#GronfaRhwydweithiauNatur

🤔 Ever wondered how we study dolphin diets? 🐬

We've created a short animation, narrated by Iolo Williams, diving into our #DolphinDietDetectives project! 💩 🧪 🔬

Check out the animation here 👉https://champ.ly/0Or7kAoR

#NatureNetworksFund #MarineMammalScience #MarineMammal

Seahorse floating amongst seagrass

Take some luck into Friday the 13th! 🍀

🐴 Seahorses were considered good luck by sailors.📜They were believed to provide safe passage through stormy seas. 🌊 And ward off evil spirits! 👹

#GoodLuck #Friday13th

We love an unboxing here at CBMWC! Swipe for a sneak peak of some of the stock we've ordered in preparation for the new season 🛍️

🥳 Happy #InternationalWomensDay 👩🏾‍🦱 👩🏻‍🦰👱🏽🧕🏼👧🏻 #IWD2026 💙

Today our #MarineConservation team are celebrating all the amazing women working and volunteering in conservation! 🌍👏

#WomenInScience #WomenInConservation #EmpoweringWomen

👀 Weekly Sightings Update 🌊

🧑‍🤝‍🧑This week our #MarineConservation volunteers carried out 9 #DolphinWatch surveys! 📝 Another quiet week for dolphin sightings.🐬 Though nicer weather for the volunteers.☀️

#CitizenScienceSurvey

Edible crab | The Wildlife Trusts Also known as the brown crab, this large crab is found around all UK shores and is identifiable by the distinctive pie-crust edge to its brown shell.

Also called brown crab 😂

www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-exp...

This is the common name for this specific species. 🦀 Also referred to as brown crab.

👀Looking for a good book to read for #WorldBookDay?📖

💕 Here's what we recommend! 📚Comment your recommendations below!📝

#BookReccomendations

#WildlifeWednesday 💙

🦀Edible crab have a thick, oval shaped shell with a pie-crust edge.🥧They are an active predator, stalking and ambushing prey! They feed on smaller crabs, whelks mussels and even dig for razor clams. 🐌🦪

A beautiful morning in New Quay! 🏖️🌞

#OfficeView #BeachLife #NewQuayWales

🌊 Our marine conservation team found these Flat Periwinkle eggs🥚on a seashore safari last week 🐟

🐚 Swipe to see what they grow up into! 🐌
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#FlatPeriwinkle #LivingSeas #MarineConservation #CBMWC #WTSWW #NewQuay #NewQuayWales #CardiganBay #GronfaRhwydweithiauNatur #NatureNetworksFund