Remember our rather barren walk around the local WWT reserve at Llanelli recently? Well last Sunday couldn’t have been more different. There are still a few winter residents around the place including four Wigeon on the NRA scrapes, but the vast majority of departed birds have more than been made Read more…
Last week birding on patch was dominated by the continued arrival of spring migrants, as well as some very interesting behaviour from a few of our resident birds. After seeing my first Swallow of the year at Rhossili on Tuesday it was very nice to find one over Bryn-bach-Common the Read more…
After the torrential downpour that was bank holiday Monday I was very happy to wake up the following morning to glorious sunshine. Fortunately for me I’d booked the day off work so headed down to Gower with the aim of walking the coast from Port Eynon to Oxwich. What I Read more…
For our third and final day in Dorset we actually hopped over the border to Devon for a walk along the River Coly. We did the same thing during our visit last year and were rewarded with sightings of nesting Kingfishers and Sand Martins. With Easter being a few weeks Read more…
Plummeting temperatures and the end of a fortnights glorious sunshine coincided perfectly last week with our first camping trip of the year. Our destination for the long Easter weekend was to be Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a location famed worldwide for its fossil giving cliffs and spectacular scenery. Read more…
Due to ongoing garden projects we again spent this past weekend at home, and once more were simply amazed by just how much bird life we saw either in the garden itself or flying overhead. The regular feeder visitors have now become so used to our presence that on Saturday Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend heralded the arrival of a new camera into my life. For the last three years I have been using a Panasonic Lumix FZ28 which revolutionised the photographs I was able to take. Its combination of small size and big zoom meant Read more…
In this second of four posts covering last Sunday I shall, as promised, be focusing on the smaller birds that were to be found in the trees and bushes surrounding Cosmestons two lakes. All of these photographs were taken in the space of about twenty minutes while standing on the Read more…
On Sunday we had our most productive and enjoyable day out of the year to date; so successful in fact that a single blog entry would never be sufficient to cover it entirely. Instead consider this the first of a trilogy that is likely to be in four parts (if Read more…
My last post was very focused on the historical elements of Pembrey country park so in this one I thought I’d take a closer look at the wildlife to be found there instead. We’d actually started our walk that day a couple of miles further down the coast at the Read more…