Both metaphorically and literally as it turns out. Today mainly consisted of very thick fog that knocked visibility down to little more than a few hundred meters, with precipitation ranging from annoying drizzle to driving rain. My plan of a lengthy walk across the backbone of Gower was put on Read more…
I have just been processing my backlog of photos and came across a nice selection from the beach at Mumbles Pier taken around the middle of October. It was if I remember correctly the last properly hot day of the year with a clear blue sky and no wind whatsoever. Read more…
It’s time for a rather belated update covering our afternoon activities following the visit to the Kittiwake colony in the last post. For the first time ever I found myself at Mumbles just as the tide was starting to get low enough to uncover the rocks between the mainland and Read more…
A couple of days ago I posted a few pictures on here of the Mediterranean Gulls that I had seen gathered at Bracelet Bay near Mumbles. One of the birds I noticed had a coloured ring on its leg so I sent the details off to Barry Stewart to see Read more…
Following on from my last post the prediction of a good year for Mediterranean Gulls was to be proved correct a couple of days later after a brief visit to Bracelet Bay on Gower. Last year this was pretty much a guaranteed spot to see this species and this year 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…
This morning was bright and clear so a plan was hatched to go and visit some of the local sites that we tend not to get to that often. First things first we had to negotiate the garden and a very vocal male House Sparrow which appears to have taken Read more…
I have taken a bit of a break from blogging this last week for a couple of reasons. Firstly the weather has been frankly atrocious and what sun there has been has coincided rather nicely with the hours that I am in work. Secondly I have been getting stuck into Read more…