The alarm clock split the early morning silence with its harsh electronic beats, and was quickly extinguished by a groping hand. Normally a four o’clock wakeup call would be met with cries of protest and a quick retreat back under the covers. But this wasn’t just any morning; this was Read more…
This afternoon we spent a couple of hours at the WWT site on the outskirts of Llanelli and found ourselves surrounded by hordes of new arrivals. It wasn’t hard to miss the hundred strong flock of Jackdaws that were hanging around the entrance making an almighty racket, the majority of Read more…
It’s been a pretty quiet weekend for me with atrocious weather and work commitments limiting any outings. I did manage to squeeze in a couple of forays out to my local patch however on Friday and Saturday, both times during late evening. The Friday trip was quite productive with some Read more…
It seems that the Mumbles pier Kittiwakes always get a good response on here whenever I write about them, so I thought I’d share a few more of my favourite photos from our recent visit. As I mentioned in my last post there are now at least 275 individuals on Read more…
I made a quick visit to Mumbles Pier a couple of weeks ago to check on the breeding Kittiwake colony and was very pleased to see that their numbers have swelled to at least 275 individuals, many of which are now paired up and in the last throws of nest Read more…
It was while watching the new series of the BBC’s Springwatch (which is turning out to be one of the best yet in my opinion), that I had the dawning realisation that I was rapidly running out of time to go and watch Pied Flycatchers at their best. These summer Read more…
It seems that the ever present wind has finally abated just in time for the arrival of some warmer weather. Yesterday evening we had blue sky from horizon to horizon so decided to pack a picnic and head to Rhossili on Gower to enjoy the sunset. On the way out Read more…
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of spending several hours on Skomer Island just off the Pembrokeshire coast. After a weather aborted attempt on Sunday the rain that greeted us on waking did not look promising but the day very quickly turned into an absolute scorcher, with wildlife to match. Read more…
Today was the very first day of annual leave that I have taken since Christmas, and boy did I need the break. The weather was forecast to be very changeable so we decided to head up to the Lliw Reservoirs above Swansea, once a fairly regular haunt but somewhere that Read more…
As you can see I have finally succeeded at getting those elusive Yellowhammers on camera after many failed attempts over the last few weeks. The bird shown here is not one of the usual pair that I watch up on Bryn-bach-Common (they were there but were keeping well into the Read more…