Posted in Birds, Nature, Uncategorized, Wales, tagged birds, Carmarthenshire, wildfowl on January 11, 2013 | 14 Comments »
Mr and Mrs mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) at Llanelli WWT, late December 2012
Although we are now starting a colder and drier spell – maybe with snow on the way – we have had nothing but rain for months. Ideal if you have webbed feet!
So we recently made one of our regular trips to the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust reserve in Llanelli. At this time of year the (more…)
Posted in Birds, Gardening, History, Nature, Uncategorized, tagged birds, dorset, Gardening, wildfowl on October 12, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Upton House in Poole, Dorset – now the setting for a small country park
My childhood holidays in the late 1950s and 1960s were spent in Upton, a suburb on the northern edge of Poole in Dorset. My mother was born in Poole and Upton was where her mother and sister still lived in those days.
But Upton House was unknown to me until a few years ago, as it was in private hands. In fact my cousin now tells me that when she was little the local lady of the Upton manor would go around distributing largesse to poor families like ours!
In this blog post I intended just to show the pictures I took of the lovely flowers in the walled garden and some of the wildfowl you can see from the shore at the bottom of the garden, but (more…)
Posted in Birds, Nature, Uncategorized, tagged birds, Nature, wildfowl, wildlife, winter on January 18, 2012 | 13 Comments »
A bust of Sir Peter Scott at the Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre
Over Christmas I thought I would miss my usual trip to the Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre because of the miserable weather, but as it turned out we found a break in the weather on New Year’s Day and went instead to the Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre over the Severn Bridge in England.
This is the original (more…)
Posted in Birds, Nature, Uncategorized, tagged birds, wildfowl, winter on January 1, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Between Christmas and New Year we usually visit the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre at Llanelli, but this year it has been very dark, wet and miserable.
So I thought I would (more…)
Posted in Birds, Uncategorized, tagged birds, design, wildfowl, wildlife on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An eider duck (Somateria mollissima) on the ice at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre, Christmas 2009
Eider ducks are different. For some reason I have always thought of them as rather “Art Deco” in design. I hope the pictured Clarice Cliff plate gives you some idea where I am coming from on that one!
A Clarice Cliff plate
For a couple of years I have (more…)
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