I’m becoming very conscious that I keep talking about the weather in these posts and I’m afraid that this one is going to be no different (I am English though so that probably has a lot to do with it)! After dodging the worst yesterday it seemed that the weather Read more…
I was browsing Google Maps last night looking for promising new locations to explore with the appalling weekend weather forecast in mind. Amazingly I spotted two smallish reservoirs barely ten minutes from home that I didn’t even know were there! They are known as the Lliedi Reservoirs and are in Read more…
I fancied a trip further afield on Sunday and so ended up around Fishguard in Pembrokeshire, one of my favourite places in Wales. First port of call was Cwm yr Eglwys on the north side of Dinas Head where we hoped to find a Red-Necked Grebe that had been feeding Read more…
First stop this morning was Aberavon beach in the hope of seeing a Red Throated Diver out in the bay. I had no luck there due to the roughness of the sea but did pick up a raft of 51 Great Crested Grebes just off shore. The real action however Read more…
Monday was the final day of my Christmas holiday and we headed back to Port Eynon to try and get some better photographs of the birds that I had seen there a week ago in atrocious conditions. The clouds were again with us but at least is was dry and Read more…
Happy New Year. As has become our yearly tradition, January 1st 2011 found us at the WWT Llanelli site taking part in their “twitch and tick event”. The premise is simple in that you walk around trying to spot as many bird species as possible before submitting your score to Read more…
Yesterday was my final birding day of the year as a result of an unfortunate shortfall in my annual leave that has put me back in the office this morning. The places I could have visited were wide and varied but I eventually plumped for an old favourite in the Read more…
Both metaphorically and literally as it turns out. Today mainly consisted of very thick fog that knocked visibility down to little more than a few hundred meters, with precipitation ranging from annoying drizzle to driving rain. My plan of a lengthy walk across the backbone of Gower was put on Read more…
After two days of drizzle the snow is completely gone and the temperature has shot up to the heady heights of almost eight degrees. With continuous showers sweeping across the hills the best option for today was to carry out a bit of car bird watching along the Burry Inlet. Read more…
I hope you all had a cracking Christmas and suffered nothing more than a bit of weight gain after eating far too much. We deployed our annual combative tradition of heading over to Rhossili for an afternoon walk instead of slouching in front of the TV watching Santa Claus 3 Read more…