Peterstone Wentlooge Marshes
Description
Gwent Wildlife Trust – Peterstone Wentlooge Marshes
“This glistening landscape of rippling pools, marshy islands and mudflats stretches far out across the Severn Estuary. This tidal habitat is a difficult place to live but is perfect for specialist coastal plants, like sea aster, marsh mallow and sea milkwort.
It is the thick mud, teeming with invertebrates, which makes this place such a haven for wildlife, particularly the thousands of wading birds that use it as an important stopover to feed and rest during migration. Dunlins, turnstones and redshanks feast on the mud-dwelling creatures in spring and autumn. The haunting calls of curlews and the piping of oystercatchers fill the air and they are joined in the winter by ducks like teal, wigeon and shelducks.” (GWT, 2024)
The ‘Wales Coastal Footpath’ runs along the sea wall and leads to a wooden screen that gives an impressive view of the wildlife on the estuary without disturbing them.
