On Tuesday evening we were treated to the most glorious of sunsets from Llanelli foreshore. Under a clear sky and with the tide rapidly rising, it was hard not to marvel as the natural world put on one of its best displays this year. And in case you were wandering, Read more…
Remember the good old days when I used to spend a whole weekend birding various locations across Wales? If not then I don’t blame you as I’m struggling to do so myself. For various reasons this year, the weather being one and life being another, I just haven’t been able Read more…
The scarcity of updates here over this last week is testament to the continued disaster that is our so-called summer. It’s rained every day for almost two weeks now and to be honest I’ve had enough. Even the garden is starting to show its displeasure with several plants suffering from Read more…
It’s been a while since I’ve felt the call of a rarity but last Sunday I couldn’t resist. As a rule I tend to avoid the whole ‘twitching’ culture as for me it holds little attraction, but I have been known to pop out to a local site on the Read more…
Remember our rather barren walk around the local WWT reserve at Llanelli recently? Well last Sunday couldn’t have been more different. There are still a few winter residents around the place including four Wigeon on the NRA scrapes, but the vast majority of departed birds have more than been made Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend heralded the arrival of a new camera into my life. For the last three years I have been using a Panasonic Lumix FZ28 which revolutionised the photographs I was able to take. Its combination of small size and big zoom meant Read more…
2012 got off to a bug filled start this morning. First my iPhone alarm clock failed to wake us due to yet another software issue, then we discovered an unexpected visitor in the kitchen. I shall leave the failings of Apple’s development team aside and instead concentrate on our new Read more…
Once more we find Christmas Eve upon us, but it’s hard to imagine a greater contrast with what we were experiencing twelve months ago. Where last year there was snow on the ground and temperatures were struggling to get above freezing we now have extremely mild conditions and almost torrential Read more…
We still seem to be having an incredibly high number of rainbows this week, more than I can ever remember seeing in fact (that’s probably an exaggeration but you get the picture). As I have mentioned previously most of these, including the occasional double, have been witnessed whilst stuck inside Read more…
After the wind of Saturday it was nice to be in the slightly more sheltered location of Llanelli’s WWT reserve on Sunday. As I pulled into the car park I noticed that the feeders featured in one of my posts a couple of weeks ago had been restocked and added Read more…