Big Garden Birdwatch

Over the weekend of the 30th and 31st January the RSPB are asking you to spend one hour recording the number and species of birds that visit your garden or park, more details at www.rspb.org.uk It seems fitting that just when we change the name of our cottage to Tyr...

FLOWERED UP

It seems like each time I walk down to the Estuary at the moment there are new flowers out.  Spikes of purple foxgloves are everywhere, with the occasional freak pale mauve popping up now and again and looking slighltly awkward.  The wild bank on the camp site is...

WILD GOATS AND WHINBERRIES

At the weekend we waved off our very polite motorbiking guests on Sunday morning and headed for the hills. Driving up the lush green valley from Llanbedr you leave the trees behind and reach the lovely Cwm Bychan lake and the rocky wilderness that is The Rhinogs...

FIRST CUCKOO CALL

John heard the first cuckoo of Spring yesterday morning down by the estuary. The odd house martin is back too and they are starting to check out the eaves of the house.  With violets, celandine, wood anemone and wild garlic out on the lower fields and cherry blossom...