With good reports of migrants coming in last week from the Machynys area we decided to chance our own luck there on Sunday. Prime target was definitely a Whitethroat as after coming tantalisingly close on Gopa Hill a few days earlier we really wanted to see one in the flesh. Read more…
Start: SN 987 200 End: SN 987 200 Distance: 8miles Overall Altitude Gain: 1,600ft Terrain: Well defined tracks onto steep, open hillsides Difficulty: Medium – navigation difficult on open hillsides Anyone who found themselves at a loose end these past couple of days definitely needs an introduction to the great Read more…
It’s been another excellent few days out on patch this week with Spring migrants continuing to build in number. An influx of Willow Warblers in particular from Tuesday onwards has meant that we now only need open a window to hear their distinctive calls with the bushes up on Gopa Read more…
It was cold, grey and windy on Sunday, not really the ideal conditions for a walk around Dinefwr but having talked it up so much following our last visit my parents were eager to see what all the fuss was about. It was something of a disappointment therefore to arrive Read more…
By the time we turned in on Sunday night the temperature was hovering around five degrees. A few hours later it was marginally above one and we were definitely feeling it inside our tent. Having joked about finding ice on the car before setting out on this trip it seemed Read more…
Another walk we wanted to repeat this trip was from Lizard Point, as far south as it’s possible to get in mainland Britain, out to Church Cove before looping back and heading in the opposite direction to Kynance Cove. Conditions were perfect with the previous day’s haze finally lifted and Read more…
After having walked for over seven hours the previous day a more relaxed approach on Monday seemed like just the ticket. To that end we headed over to the RSPB reserve at Marazion where hopes were high of picking off some early spring migrants. Almost immediately we could hear singing Read more…
Hobbies away from birding took up much of my time last weekend but that didn’t stop me from getting out on a couple of occasions. The most enjoyable of these trips was on Sunday where we spent a few hours walking the Millennium coastal path from Llanelli to Machynys. For Read more…
Sunday 7th saw us making a long overdue return visit to Hatton Locks, a flight of twenty one locks (not lochs as I originally spelt the title of this entry and which would have made for something entirely different) on the Grand Union Canal. Opened in 1799 they have a Read more…
It was over to the Met Office and their radar maps on Sunday 9th in an effort to spot a gap in the series of weather fronts blasting their way across south Wales. My best option seemed to be early afternoon along the north shore of the Burry so it Read more…