I had a real yearning for some ‘proper’ birding weekend before last. Not a walk with some birds thrown in for good measure but a full on, telescope out, find as much as we possibly can expedition. Ideally that would have involved a trip to my favourite reserve on the Read more…
It’s a rare occurrence these days that I leave home without my camera, but when I do you can guarantee that something awesome will appear. Two weeks ago it was a hunting Short Eared Owl along the banks of the Loughor whilst last weekend I was treated to more Masked Read more…
I mentioned yesterday that we’d been blown away by the sheer quantity and variety of life in the rockpools out towards Mumbles Head. Our first find was this Shore Crab, easily the largest crustacean we’ve seen on Gower at around six centimetres in diameter. In the same small pool a Read more…
On Saturday we woke early and by nine were already parked up in the small coastal village of Seatown in preparation for the days walk. Our destination was to be the top of Golden Cap, the tallest point on the south coast of England at 191 metres and a landmark Read more…
A spare hour on Friday evening found me walking out from Llangennech onto the marsh. Thirty six Little Egrets were dotted around the numerous channels whilst a similar number of Cormorants were gathering on the power cables above the Loughor foreshore. It was to my feet however that my attention Read more…
The day after returning from Newquay I found myself back on familiar ground at Rhossili beach on the Gower Peninsular. My girlfriends parents were down for the weekend which actually coincided with a rare bit of good weather. Not going to the beach would have been plain rude and I Read more…