Qualla: The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey/ Photo credit Nick R, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sker is an Old Norse word and it means exactly what it looks like: rock. When Viking sailors first charted this small archipelago off the northwest tip of Anglesey, they were not interested in its history or its wildlife; they were noting a hazard. From their ships, the Skerries appeared as a low collar of dark stone in the middle of the only practical shipping route between Liverpool and Dublin, exactly where a southwesterly gale would pile a ship onto rocks before her crew knew where they were. Their Welsh-speaking neighbours had a less alarming name for the same place. They called it Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid - the Islands of the Seals - because in summer the grey seals haul out on the lower rocks in numbers that surprise everyone who sees them for the first time. Both names are still in use. Both are accurate.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-wp/gckx-the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey: Rock and Reef https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey/ Photo credit Joadl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at. The total area above mean high water is about 17 hectares - roughly the size of 17 rugby pitches scattered across a kilometre of sea. The individual islets are connected at low tide and by a series of small stone footbridges; at high water they separate again. The Skerries Lighth...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-wp/gckx-the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-rock-and-reef.mp3 0:06 2 full The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey: The Tern Capital of Wales https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey/ Photo credit Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0. If the Skerries are dangerous to ships, they are extraordinarily good to seabirds. Arctic terns - those small, white, scissor-tailed marvels that migrate from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year - nest here in nationally important numbers. So do common terns. The much...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-wp/gckx-the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey-the-tern-capital-of-wales.mp3 0:06 3 full The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey: RSPB Summer Wardens and a Sooty Tern https://qualla.com/the-skerries-isle-of-anglesey/ Photo credit 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0. From April to August each year, RSPB wardens take up residence in the old lighthouse keepers' cottages, which Trinity House made available after automation in 1987. Their work is unglamorous but consequential: counting nests, controlling the invasive tree mallow that would otherw...

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