Swansea barrage (shown above) was built in 1992 with the aim of creating a new marina to extend the leisure facilities already offered by the old industrial docks. One of the main environmental considerations during the project was to ensure that fish could still move freely both up and down Read more…
Following our visit to Manorbier and St Govans we headed over to Bosherston Lily Ponds in the hope of finding some Otters. Our previous two visits here have both been later on in the year, and on one of those occasions we had a superb encounter with a very inquisitive Read more…
We have just had an extended weekend here in the UK which fortunately coincided with some excellent weather. My girlfriends family were staying with us for the duration which meant that we got to visit some of my favourite locations on Gower, but often from a different viewpoint to our Read more…
We spent a couple of hours walking along the Llanelli waterfront last night, and I have to say that I am very impressed with how the redevelopment of what was once an industrial wasteland has taken shape over the last few years. The tidal areas were packed with waders including Read more…
You’ll have to excuse the suitably vague location details in this post, but our prize finds from Sunday are a Schedule 1 protected species and I don’t want to inadvertently jeopardise their breeding success. All I will say is that I was somewhere on the Gower coastline and to my Read more…
Saturday was pretty much a wash out when it comes to photography, mainly as a result of the appalling weather. I did however manage to explore a couple of new walks that will definitely be making it onto my regular itinerary. We started the day off by driving into the Read more…
I’ve just got back from a very enjoyable late evening walk at Rhossili. The air was alive with the sound of calling Crickets, but the real star was to be found sat on one of the gate posts on the way down to the beach. This is a Convolvulus Hawkmoth Read more…
You could say I’m pretty chuffed with the photo above. The very obliging subject is a female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum), one of several that were resting on shrubs around Llanelli WWT on Sunday. I have never had much luck getting close to these prehistoric insects in the past, but Read more…
I spent a couple of hours on Saturday evening watching the high tide roost in action at Pembrey Harbour. The weather was pretty awful with banks of mist and rain being driven up the Burry inlet from off the sea. Despite these adverse conditions the birds still assembled in excellent Read more…
We spent last Saturday at Llangorse Lake, a new location for us in the north of the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is apparently the largest natural lake in South Wales covering some 327 acres, and was formed by retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age. At Read more…