This blog aims to keep you updated with my birding and other outdoor pursuits. I am based primarily in South West Wales but make frequent trips further afield including up to the Isle of Mull.
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As a follow on from yesterdays post, I thought I would share some photographs of some of the other visitors that were frequenting the feeders along with the Jays. All of the Tit species were present, as well as Greenfinches much to my delight. Over the...
Yesterday I had a chance encounter that led to me taking some of my favourite wildlife pictures so far, and of one of the shiest birds to boot. I had parked my car up next to some feeders in the WWT Llanelli car park in the hope of photographing some...
Given that Gower is such a well photographed location, it is often a challenge to try and find a viewpoint or angle that hasn't been done to death. A recent low tide presented such an opportunity to me as I was exploring Burry Holms at the north end of...
Last weekend the great weather gods blessed us with some sun so we headed down to Mumbles with the aim of walking a bit of the coastal path that we hadn't so far managed to do. Upon arrival at the Mumbles we were greeted with what appeared to be large...
We are all familiar with the feral pigeons which often plague our city centres, but what of their origins? After all they didn't always have cities to inhabit. The ancestor of todays Feral Pigeon is the Rock Dove, which also has direct links to some...
