Published on 12, July, 2020
Iv decided to do a forum on my wildlife holidays where I can tell you about my holiday rather than just sending pictures
cause iv been on lots of them this year rather than only sending photos. also proper trips il tell you about and add photos to go with it on this post aswell. cause it will be easyer and better for me but is also for holidays cause im going on lots of holidays this year and it deserves its own thread in this sense.
my first holiday I went on this year was Wales. I went to Snowdonia near the national park
we saw a lamma and a pony
with the view we got from the cottage we stayed in was of the sea
Jackdaws perched on the buildings when we watched tv we went for a walk and I got great pictures of the moutains
you could see them on the beach outline at the beach the waves I saw a literally called gray heron fly past
the waves crashed against the rocks and became fully submerged until they broke and forced its way over. my long lens saved my life by getting me up close enough to photograph the waders and I saw Great crested grebes.
back at the cottage herring gulls at Jackdaws
the next day we went to the waterfalls I saw yellow gorse.
the water level was high but not flooded. it was a adventure and the gorse made it look colourful
it was massive then we went down the mountain the next day we went to the sea again and I saw a cormerent. there was lots of bladder wrack which is a type of seaweed.
seaweed are actualy a type of algae. some can surve out the water for a certain period of time. others dont survive as well it depends on the type cause theres different types of seaweed.
this one is normaly mistake for seaweed but is actualy a type of animal instead
in July
im very used to wildlife watching in the uk and while I have been to menorca I havnt wildlife watched there cause I didnt have an interest in Wildlife then so this was my first time wildlife watching in a different country.
I allways have to wear ear defenders when i go to the air port but they had disability asistance. I had to improvise cause the person that supports me that went with me hasnt gone on holiday with me before and didnt know what to say or do with my sensory challanges at the airport. the person that was with me said she thinks il be fine but I knew cause of my autism cant deal with crowds so I said I have autism and I dont like crowds so would it be ok to go where its less busy or quiter and so she took me through. there was a point where we wernt sure if I had to take my ear defenders off at the part where you have to walk through and them see if you got metal on you so I asked the lady there if I could keep them on and she went off to ask the person behind the thing you have to walk through. I was very anxious at this point. it was time to put our items on the coveyerbelt and walk through the metal thing. The person with me for the holiday and me still didnt know so I was panicing inside and i was told to take them off by the person taking me which i was reluctant to do but the plaine lady came over and thumbed up us saying not to take them off and that i can keep them on and we went through. the flight was delayed by an hour. but it was no ones fault cause they had to help somone who couldnt walk onto the plane. so we walked and stopped every 5 minutes so people were joking about that and inpatient at the same time. eventually we got on though at last. I filmed the take off and we went over the bay of biscay on the way to Tenerife
when landing I saw mount tede from above the clouds.
the next day I saw a canarian chiffchaff
and I saw a Spanish sparrow for the first time. they were breeding at the hotel.
but one of my biggest highlights was snorkeling for the very first time
and the dolphins which i got to see for the very first time
and mount tede a active volcano with many species only found on that mountain I saw crystal on a rock
that was the last day. the next day we went on a trip but when it came to packing bags for the trip. I put my bag with the plastic bag on it ontop of my suitcase then gave it to her with the plastic bag on it but took it off and thought that she was going to put the bag in cause it didnt only have my stuff in the bag and as far as I knew the plastic bag was in the boot but at some point in the journey I wondered where the bag was and thought it might be in the boot cause i couldnt see it in the back. we checked the boot and it wasnt there.
my ear defenders got left behind which was problomatic cause the person with me wasnt willing to go back and get the ear defenders and soon we had to go to the air port. I was highly anxious and I found it diffucult getting her to understand the why it is important enough that we do have to go back anf get them we bought some silenceing headphones as an emergancy cause otherwise I wouldnt of been able to get on the plane. we went through disability asisstance. the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and we wernt able to get on until midnight. a teenager had a go in a wheelchair and a little boy was going up and down a slope behind me which i found acted as visual stimulation and made my anxiety worse. it isnt thetre fault its just cause im autistic but thanfuly things did cam down and at 12 o'clock we lined up and got on the plane and came back to the uk by 4 or 5 oclock in the morning.
I went to the Bristol Channel to porteshead I left after 10;30 at 11oclock this morning. I had what could be the begining of a cold
yesterday after I had been to a shop which I found too noisy and busy yesterday so didnt go out in the afternoon. today in the morning I still had a sore throat from yesterday but I left anyway cause I really wanted to go. I havnt been there before and im very interested in the conservation side of Wildlife. I wrote down things I could research and write about cause im very good at and love research and writeing just like I love drawing. im going to be going to things like farms and rivers to research, learn and write up a report on it is my own idea that I came up with and this is one of those places so I took lots of pictures of what I saw on the way there aswell as at the beach itself
the sat nav got the person who drove me abit lost then when she found that she knew where she is but found no where to go
and she thought I wanted to go to a pond when it was actualy a river I corrected her and said no its a river and its a beach
thats where im going. unfortunatly I didnt know the name of the beach but I had a map on my device and had to improvise and say the name of a bay and say put it in cause thats where it is risking the possibility of being wrong but from scanning it knowing the probability to be higher rather than lower that it is hence my deceiton. this another one of those situations I have to put what im good at to good use cause they can be helpful to others. when we got there I saw a sign that said to be careful of the mud and we could hear the sea nearby and could see it so we knew we were there it was just fining it but judgeing by the noise, view and trail it were to lead us to the beach and from the looks of the path no other way but there. a man asked me if im ok and I said yes just looking for how to get to the beach and he pointed and said what there and said yes if you carry on down there is some steps that go onto the beach and I said thanks. as soon as we got there the man started talking to us again and said there is also some ships. on the other side we said thanks then he pointed out this fella iv taken a picture of. he said that for some reason theres a boat thing here whatever it is and its not suposed to be there and said hes going to report it to the council. he was still rambling on abit but i took a picture of it and then he muttered something that comfused me like mental and muttered it shouldnt do much damage after complaining about why it shouldnt be there. and I said ok then well thats that im just going to go to the beach. ok.
and went down the stairs
to the beach. I got a shock cause I didnt know what type of beach it was going to be it was like going from grass and ground to a suddenly completey different terrain altogether out of nowhere it was a combination of sandy, muddy, stoney, sandy and grassy and flat. there was lots of seaweed which is a type of algae
this one is completely dried up but is one of the very first ones I saw
as I walked across the stones I spotted something that shouldnt be there. thanfuly there wasnt another one of these but it isnt good for the wildlife particularly when the sea comes in which on this beach covers the whole part hence the muddiness which could afect the wildlife. I didnt see any bins on the beach but still.
these are the rocks i was on about just to clarify there are also low cliffs here.
there was lots of interesting plants
I also spotted some gulls they were black headed gulls.
the gulls in summer plummage also called breeding plummage have completely black heads but late summer to Autumn they lose alot of the black but it doesnt disapear completely they have black round smudges on there face
they are also our smallest gull out of the herring gull, lesser black backed gull and greater black backed gull
but they are very agile and are one of the few where play behaviour has been recorded there favourate ggame
is catch the leaf. where they entertain themselfs by drop a leaf and then going to catch it but for these ones they are just
chilling out as a flock and going for a swim
as you might notice there was lots and lots of seaweed in one place
I noticed that the water was very murky looking.
there was lots of waves
with patches of grass and other plants
some parts of the ground on the beach were so soft some parts of it had cracks
after this I decided to look at the grassy area and there was lots of plants in fact i saw a few
pollinators.
after that it was time to go back. I was actualy meant to have lunch at some point when I was there
but I was so preocupied with my speacial interest that is of course part of my autism that I didnt think about food
or get hungry and completely missed lunch. but when we left I had it in the car on the way back.
Was it the glass that shouldn't be there? I have an irrational fear of glass. I have to ensure that every last bit has gone if I ever smash any.
When other people take you aside from your parents, what are their roles?