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It Doesn’t Rain It Pours

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…

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Winter on the Burry Inlet

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…

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Bewick’s Swans at Kenfig NNR

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…