It’s become something of a tradition recently for wildlife and photography bloggers to revisit their favourite moments from the past year during December. Never one to miss a trend this will be my contribution and I promise to avoid mentioning the endless rain that seems to have been a permanent Read more…
On my walk last night I noticed that a couple of new signs have gone up at various entrances to the common land that makes up my local patch. Most of these were the normal ones that you would expect to see including no camping and no fires, but it Read more…
This evening I got out on patch for the first time this week and was surprised to stumble across several recently placed traps dotted around various Gorse bushes on Bryn-Bach-common. Reading the attached note on one revealed them to be part of an environmental survey being carried out in preparation Read more…
It was only in the last couple of years that I realised it was possible to see satellites passing overhead at night, and since then I have been absolutely fascinated by them. With a clear sky and minimal light pollution it doesn’t take long to pick out at least a Read more…
Time for something a little different on my blog tonight, concerning a cause that I would very much like to draw your attention to. Social media and the traditional press have been awash these last few weeks with myriad responses to the UK governments proposal to sell off the entirety Read more…
Sunday was our day of choice to take part in the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, and it also represented the first time that we have done so in the new house. This annual voluntary survey of the state of our garden birds continues to go from strength to strength Read more…
After the splurge of outings that characterised the first few weeks of this year, the past seven days have been relatively quiet. Saturday was spent out in the garden putting up some Christsmas presents including a bat box and several new bird feeders. A Raven spent much of the day Read more…
I was mulling over different ways of recording wildlife sightings yesterday whilst the rain kept me cooped up inside, and wrote a little piece on some of my thoughts and the way that I like to go about things. If you fancy a read then head on over here. I Read more…
I’m back from my weekend away and it proved to be everything that I had hoped for. I have a good few posts and lots of pictures to put up here which I will do over the next couple of nights. Before that though I thought I would mention something Read more…
A few days late I know but Happy New Year and welcome to 2010. And what a cold start it has been. We have had snow on the ground here in Pontarddulais for the best part of three weeks now, and with temperatures dropping even further over the next couple Read more…