Today was spent walking from Cwm Ivy to Whitford Point, heading out via the beach and back along Whitford Burrows. My overriding memory of the trip, apart from the incredible haze that we are experiencing at the moment, will be of a simply amazing encounter that I had with two Read more…
Ever since the arrival of Spring my morning sleep has been rudely interrupted by the incredibly loud calls of a couple of Chiffchaffs. I say a couple but it could be a whole army of them given the volume that they seem to be able to generate. Now don’t get Read more…
Every birder has a few of those species that no matter how hard they try they just never seem to be able to catch up with. I have had a fair bit of success over the last twelve months on this front but one bird has been continually alluding me; Read more…
Tonight I have a slightly more unusual (well for me anyway) piece of wildlife for the blog. I spent a couple of hours down at Burry Port earlier this evening and noticed the following insect walking across one of the pavements. After much googling I have come to the conclusion Read more…
This morning was bright and clear so a plan was hatched to go and visit some of the local sites that we tend not to get to that often. First things first we had to negotiate the garden and a very vocal male House Sparrow which appears to have taken Read more…
Much of today was spent indoors glued to my laptop trying to work out why collecting tax couldn’t just be a whole lot simpler. I did manage a walk up the nearby valley during the early afternoon and was very pleased to hear the Green Woodpeckers again. Although I didn’t Read more…
This week I am on-call from work again so trips any distance from the house are completely out. As tonight proved though this isn’t always a bad thing. A quick walk up the hill out back after work quickly led to a mystery as I could hear a strange bird Read more…
Despite feeling considerably below par today I dragged myself down to Rhossili in the hope that some fresh air and sun would do the world of good. As it turned out they did bugger all but the birds that were around certainly took my mind off things for a while. Read more…
It has been over a week since my last posting and this has mostly been down to spending four days camping over the Bank Holiday weekend. We stayed just north of Fishguard and considering the weather forecast before we left had an amazing time. Ill put up some more detailed Read more…
Yesterday I spent the majority of my time at the WWT site near Llanelli. It has been a good few months since my last visit and the changing seasons are really starting to show themselves well in terms of the birds that are present. The best sign of Spring so Read more…