I hope you all have a good New Year and 2024 is 'kind' to us all. A change this year - not a sunset but a pair of Pintail to welcome in next year

 

There is much more to volunteering for the RNLI ' than just boats ' !!! They will be ready day and night throughout the Christmas and New Year's holidays to Save lives. Photo taken after a night time launch in St Davids

 

Hello everyone - best wishes to you all for the Winter Solstice and Christmas.

 

I have a very vocal new friend at St Justinians - Must be practising for Christmas

 

Plenty of water in Lower Town today but I did have a sighting of a Dipper for a few seconds

 

Tonight I was at Whitesands looking at the South Bishops Lighthouse

 

A lovely few hours at Teifi Marshes today – nice to see a Curlew and Blackwit feeding in the Rivers edge and a Kingfisher. As it clouded over it began to really feel that Autumn is well and truly with us.

 

My suffering of 'Cabin Fever' was temporarily relieved when I escaped recently from 'The Shire' and spent some time with a group of Ring ouzels in the Elan Valley. Although I have a few long distance snaps I have for a long time I have wanted to try for some better images. I still have lots of images to go through - maybe I clicked to many times !!!

 

Lovely to see 7 Whooper swans and a great white egret near St Davids this morning

 

St Davids Lifeboat launching on exercise a few days ago

 

A bit of a selection from the North Pembrokeshire Coast and Goodwick/Fishguard. They are Chough, Bull seal, seal pup now weaned and in molt, Curlew, and, a Cormorant. All photos were taken from very public footpaths and Viewpoints using a telephoto lens. Except the Caterpillar which was standing next to me.

 

Some Photos of Seals taken from a public view point in North Pembrokeshire with a telephoto lens and heavily cropped. A Bull seal, A female seal, A pup practicing swimming, A pup molting it’s baby fur to its adult ‘coat’, A pup showing how much Seals love a pillow and a pup showing they really are related to dogs on ‘The Tree of Life’

 

A Dipper in lower Town brightened up a gloomy day last week

 

St Davids Airfield - There is a new memorial on St Davids Airfield placed there 80 years after the Airfield was first used. See photo of plaque for further details. The 'Fly Past' was an Avro Anson

 

Another Boat trip this time with ‘Bay To Remember’ departing from St Dogmaels. Good numbers of Bottle nosed dolphins and calves. The third photo shows an animal a few months old but still just showing the remains of the Feotal Folds, Seals were at Cemais head. The colours at Cemais head looked lovely in the evening sun which was starting ‘to go to bed’ as went to shore

 

Some photos from a recent boat trip from newquay with Sea Mor - Peregrine falcon, Adult and Juvenile Guillemot,Juvenile Common tern and a Popoise