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The UK Tour

Given that it has been Christmas it was time time for the all too necessary tour of the country to visit those parents and relatives that need to be kept primed for gift giving. Me a skeptic, surely not?! As my other half is from Leeds and I am originally Read more…

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Christmas In South Wales

And in rest of the world as well I would imagine. Despite my best efforts in the week leading up to Christmas I am still battling to get my digital photography collection properly organised and input into Google Picasa (see my other blog for details on this). As a result Read more…

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Birds In My Garden

I haven’t posted much about my back garden here before so I thought that now was as good an opportunity as any. Given that I currently rent a very modern house the garden is very small with a single large shrub as a token gesture towards planting. I have done Read more…

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Cosmeston Lakes

I have seen a lot of people talk about how good Cosmeston lakes are so I decided to take the trip over on what turned out to be one of the coldest days of the year so far. It took twenty minutes to get into the car after freezing rain Read more…

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Goldeneyes and Goosanders

This weekend I travelled over to the Ogmore estuary again to see what was about. I was mainly hoping to see Purple Sandpipers for only the second time ever but had no luck. What was there though was fairly spectacular. The lower estuary saw my first ever Water Pipit on Read more…

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Coal Tit Variations

Something that I didn’t realise until very recently is that there are several different variations of the Coal Tit depending upon where the bird originates from. This year has seen a massive influx of birds from the continent which exhibit a blue grey back as opposed to the native olive Read more…

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WWT Llanelli

By the time I had woken up on Saturday the bad weather that had been forecast seemed to have passed so we decided to head over to the Llanelli site of the WWT. The recent sightings board at the centre reported a Yellow Browed Warbler having being seen the previous Read more…

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Redwings and Fieldfares

Well the weekend didn’t go entirely to plan with varied weather and the small matter of a rather important motor race and the return of Top Gear to our TV screens. As a result I didn’t get to visit the places that I had originally intended to. Instead I spent Read more…