If you look back through my posts from last year you will come across a couple of entries concerning the Mediterranean Gulls which I saw regularly frequenting the grassy banks at Bracelet Bay near Mumbles, Gower. Each time there was a high tide you were pretty much guaranteed to see Read more…
My Cinnabar moth caterpillars are still feeding away in the garden and are noticeably increasing in size. I’m not sure how long it will be until they start the transformation process but I hope I get to see them emerge. The picture above shows how much of the leaf this Read more…
Tuesday evening was a very stormy one with regular showers rolling up the valley and obliterating the other side of my village from view. However it was my birthday and I was determined that we were going to get out for the picnic and walk that we had planned. I Read more…
A couple of weekends ago we were at the height of the summer heat wave and the coast seemed like the most comfortable place to be. As regular readers will know I have been aiming to walk around the entire coast of the Gower peninsular, although obviously not all at Read more…
It has been a quiet couple of weeks on here recently for a number of reasons. The main culprit has been a sudden urge to push on with the house renovations which as you can probably imagine leaves little time or energy for much else. I also took a calculated Read more…
While checking up on the Kittiwakes at Mumbles pier last weekend I took a few short video clips of the birds in action. It’s a feature of my camera that I often forget is there and as a result rarely use it. In this case I was glad that I Read more…
I certainly hadn’t but it turns out that the Kittiwakes on Mumbles Pier have a very human way of dealing with the massive heat that we are experiencing at the moment; sit down, chill out and pant away. As I had yesterday off work it seemed like an ideal time Read more…
Continuing the theme of new birth I visited Mumbles Pier on Gower yesterday afternoon to see how the colony of Kittiwakes was getting on. I am very pleased to report that all seems to be well with at least twenty nests currently being occupied. The difference to my last visit Read more…
Last weekend was my first visit to the WWT site at Llanelli for a good long while. The various lagoons and scrapes were relatively quiet with just the usual culprits present. It seems so much emptier without the vast flocks of Wigeon and Lapwing that can be found here at Read more…
I was feeling more restless than usual on Thursday evening when a clip on Springwatch showing Simon King handling a Nightjar sprung me into action. I have never seen or heard Nightjar and to be honest have no idea where to even start looking for any in my locality. I Read more…