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…
In a rare show of good people management I was allowed to leave work early today giving me a couple of hours of daylight to spend at Sandy Water Park near Llanelli. The lake there is frozen solid apart from a couple of small areas where water flows in. Unsurprisingly Read more…
Over on 10,000 birds they are currently running a feature to chose your best bird of the year. Now the definition of ‘best’ bird is going to be a very personal and subjective one so I expect there will be a wide variety of answers. If I was going to Read more…
The cold snap continues and with it the reliance on garden feeders of our local birds. Although I haven’t seen the Yellowhammer since last week all of our regular visitors have been busy eating us out of house and home. The amount of sunflower seeds they are managing to get Read more…
No new snow fell overnight on Saturday but the freezing temperatures meant that there was barely any thaw. As a result the landscape down on Llanrhidian Marsh, Gower looked more akin to the Arctic tundra than a marsh on the south wales coast. At Penclawdd large numbers of Teal (forty Read more…
Another inch of snow last night didn’t stop me getting Emma into Swansea center for work today, though it did leave me with the morning to kill before it was time to head home. I spent a couple of hours walking the streets around the Kingsway in the hope that Read more…