St David's and the weather !!

Just about everyone has experienced bad weather in the last few weeks – locally to St David’s ours has been mainly high winds and rain. Today the sun is shining so an opportunity to visit pools, water flashes and flooded areas and meadows, sadly not a lot. However this Mute swan taking advantage of a flooded camp site at Newgale did bring back memories (distant!!) of blue skies – sunshine and better things to come

Turtle doves - This and that

Thanks to Jenny, a near neighbour, we have been alerted to the presence of a Turtle dove near where I live. At last I caught up with it today in another neighbour’s garden. It seems to be spending time with a pair of Collared doves – could be fun and games in the spring!! Perhaps it has not read the book on migration. However, despite the winter conditions this year it seems to be doing OK. I think I am correct in saying the last winter sighting in Pembrokeshire was in Richard Stonier’s garden near Strumble head late December 2010 Despite the awful conditions across the UK we have been pretty free of frost and snow just on this little SW tip of Wales – so why have we not been visited by more Thrushes, Waders, Wildfowl etc? I had hoped to post wonderful pictures from Norfolk by now but the Snowman and Jack Frost decided I was not to get there. Unusually though conditions encouraged blackbirds to the feeders at the kite centre Nant yr Arian nr Aberystwyth.