I hope you all had a cracking Christmas and suffered nothing more than a bit of weight gain after eating far too much. We deployed our annual combative tradition of heading over to Rhossili for an afternoon walk instead of slouching in front of the TV watching Santa Claus 3 Read more…
In a rare show of good people management I was allowed to leave work early today giving me a couple of hours of daylight to spend at Sandy Water Park near Llanelli. The lake there is frozen solid apart from a couple of small areas where water flows in. Unsurprisingly Read more…
Over on 10,000 birds they are currently running a feature to chose your best bird of the year. Now the definition of ‘best’ bird is going to be a very personal and subjective one so I expect there will be a wide variety of answers. If I was going to Read more…
The cold snap continues and with it the reliance on garden feeders of our local birds. Although I haven’t seen the Yellowhammer since last week all of our regular visitors have been busy eating us out of house and home. The amount of sunflower seeds they are managing to get Read more…
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…
Another inch of snow last night didn’t stop me getting Emma into Swansea center for work today, though it did leave me with the morning to kill before it was time to head home. I spent a couple of hours walking the streets around the Kingsway in the hope that Read more…
Signing off yesterdays post with the words “let’s hope for some snow”certainly seemed to do the trick as this morning I woke to find a good five to six inches of the stuff. After missing out almost completely on all the fun a couple of weeks ago it seems that Read more…
Sunday was the latest in a long line of cracking winter days with clear blue sky and sunshine. Despite promising the other half that I would fix the garden gate, the lure of the Bitterns at Kenfig was too much and I was soon sitting back in the south hide Read more…
This weekend started with a common garden visitor that had a rather unusual feature. The individual in question was one of our Starlings that appears to have lost a leg! From the looks of it the loss may have been fairly recent as the bird was definitely unsteady on its Read more…
I have spoken on here in the past about the methods I like to use to record my wildlife sightings when I am out and about (link is over in the sidebar), but I freely admit that my home office and this blog are often their final destinations. It may Read more…