As mentioned in my last post, a business meeting down in Windsor presented me with the perfect opportunity to visit the WWT London Wetland Centre. The site covers 42 hectares and used to be an old water treatment works. After years of landscaping and regeneration the centre is now designated Read more…
Towards the end of last week I had to take a business trip down to Windsor, and used the opportunity to visit the WWT London Wetland Center. I last visited this site not long after it had opened, and since then the lagoons and vegetation have matured nicely creating a Read more…
The Bird Atlas is a project that is running, as the name suggests, from 2007 until 2011. Its main aim it to produce maps of distribution and relative abundance for all bird species breeding and wintering in Britain and Ireland. The last Bird Atlas was completed almost twenty years ago Read more…
Kenfig NNR is a pretty special place, occupying a huge area of sand dunes right next to the massive steel works of Port Talbot. It has also been the best place to see Warblers over the last couple of weeks, so I decided to head on down to see what Read more…
Last night I had one of those magic moments where all the worries of the world manage to slip away and you can finally feel free from the trappings of being an adult in the modern day world. These moments occur all to rarely but when they do they manage Read more…
As promised yesterday I have sorted out my photos from Skomer. Instead of just posting up a few of my favourites in the usual manner I thought I would try something a bit different with a couple of collages. I couldn’t decide which one looked the best so I have Read more…
With a bank holiday weekend to play with and good weather forecast, last weekend looked like the perfect opportunity to take in the sights of one of the numerous islands off the Pembrokeshire coast. There are a number to choose from offering different specialities in terms of the wildlife to Read more…
This weekend I realised that it was getting on for over a month since I last visited the local WWT site at Llanelli. Given that I had been making weekly visits for the last six months or so this proved a bit of a shock so on Saturday it was Read more…
One of the highlights of our visit to Mull were the numerous sightings of Golden Eagles that we regularly had as we traveled around the island. I was very lucky to catch this shot as an Eagle flew past along the cliffs within a few meters of us. For a Read more…
On Sunday I felt an urge to travel a bit further afield and with the weather still holding it seemed like the perfect opportunity to head back to Pembrokeshire. The location was set for the Teifi Marshes, the headquarters for the South and West Wales Wildlife Trust. This reserve covers Read more…