If our walk from Ogmore a week ago had signalled the first real signs of spring migration around these parts, then last Saturday was definitely the main event. In just a few hours at Kenfig pool we were treated to an array of recent arrivals, my personal highlight of which Read more…
In all the years that I’ve been visiting Kenfig NNR, Sunday was the very first opportunity I’ve ever had to photograph this ‘classic’ view. For once all the important elements of a blue sky, high water level and no people combined to kick start what turned out to be a Read more…
I arrived at the Ogmore River on Sunday, headed straight for the nearest telescope wielding human and heard those words that strike despair into every birders heart. “If you’d been here an hour ago we were having great views, but it’s flown off since and hasn’t been relocated”. As I Read more…
Regular readers will know that plants and flowers aren’t really where my photographic interests lie, but last weekend I had to make an exception for the specimen above. It caught my eye at the top of the sand in Rest Bay, and thanks to fellow blogger Jeremy I now know Read more…
Kenfig hasn’t featured very regularly on this blog during 2012, but that’s likely to change over the coming months as autumn progresses and the pool once again fills with wintering birds. Those arrivals seemed some way off on Saturday though with the current residents amounting to nothing more than a Read more…
For once the weekend turned out to be glorious across both days with blue sky, warm sun and a gentle breeze reminding us all that we do get nice weather occasionally. I was on my own for the bulk of Saturday so headed over to Kenfig NNR to see if Read more…
Emma and I have had a running joke for the last few years which involves a list of so called mythical birds which we maintained just did not exist. Celebrities such as Golden Eagle, Hen Harrier, Smew and Curlew Sandpiper have all graced the list in the past, often down Read more…
Regular readers of this blog may recall the excellent run of rarities that Eglwys Nunydd reservoir threw up around September time last year, including a Bobolink, Grey Phalarope and Whiskered Tern, all of which I managed to see. This weekend the industrial water body was back on form in a Read more…
Last night I needed an escape so headed down to Penclawdd on Gower after dark. Rather handily my arrival coincided perfectly with the high tide, which with no wind meant a large expanse of perfectly still water was there to be taken advantage of. Out in the darkness I could 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…