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The Calm Before The Storm

With the weather forecast looking decidedly dodgy for the forthcoming week, last weekend saw us head back to Rhossili in the hope that the Fulmars would still be around so that I could get some photographs. Unfortunately this was not to be and the reason soon became apparent. A male Read more…

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Christmas In South Wales

And in rest of the world as well I would imagine. Despite my best efforts in the week leading up to Christmas I am still battling to get my digital photography collection properly organised and input into Google Picasa (see my other blog for details on this). As a result Read more…

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Cosmeston Lakes

I have seen a lot of people talk about how good Cosmeston lakes are so I decided to take the trip over on what turned out to be one of the coldest days of the year so far. It took twenty minutes to get into the car after freezing rain Read more…

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WWT Llanelli

By the time I had woken up on Saturday the bad weather that had been forecast seemed to have passed so we decided to head over to the Llanelli site of the WWT. The recent sightings board at the centre reported a Yellow Browed Warbler having being seen the previous Read more…

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A Weekend Of Welsh Weather

This weekend it wasn’t only the Lake District that was taking a battering. Thursday night was absolutely horrendous, with horizontal rain and very high winds. Friday brightened up but Saturday was very grey and very windy. We decided to head down to Mewslade Bay in the morning as it was Read more…

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A Weekend Of Firsts

Due to the glorious weather this weekend I succeeded in getting out and covering most of the Burry Inlet as well as parts of the Gower, Ogmore estuary and Kenfig NNR. Saturday was spent navigating the Burry Inlet as well as taking in Port Eynon. In all we saw 52 Read more…