This week (Feb 14th-21st) is National Nestbox Week and is definitely one of my favourite yearly celebrations. You can nab yourself some great deals on boxes, kits and some goodies for your gardens or wild spaces. To kick-start the week, myself and my very good friend Sammy went to visit the boxes at WWT Llanelli … Continue reading National Nestbox week
January has been a less than exciting month for me personally, but there's plenty of wildlife activity going on that makes up for it all! Over the Winter period is a great time to get out and look for large numbers of ducks, geese and swans. Places like WWT Welney or WWT Martin Mere have … Continue reading Wildlife in January
Another year, another trip to Bardsey Bird Observatory, located on a quiet island just off North wales- It's one of my favourite places to visit. Myself and good friend Josie Hewitt, went for a week in September. We were hoping for some decent migrants to turn up and we weren't disappointed! Having arrived on the Saturday, … Continue reading Photographing Waders on Bardsey
This year, I've been working with SPC Wildlife to encourage and educate people on garden birds and how we can help aid them. I've been extremely grateful to receive some of their brilliant Wild Bird mixes and some straight mixes such as Peanuts and Suet pellets. SPC Wildlife sell their seed mixes in three sizes … Continue reading Review: SPC Wildlife Wild Bird Food Mixes
Spring and Summer are my favourite times of the year, the birds are in full song, displaying and then the nesting begins! I'm part of the Nest Recording Scheme for the BTO which means I check nest boxes and nests to monitor the progress. I currently have 42 passerine boxes and some other boxes at … Continue reading Start of Nesting season!
This year, my yearly venture to Portugal was slightly earlier than usual and was the first time I had gone without my mum! Day 1: This was not actually our first day but it was the first day that myself and Espen were together and the first day of birding. We stayed around the Villa … Continue reading A trip to Portugal’16
I've now finished most of the construction work for Garden Watch ready for the cameras to go up. I've finished building the last feeding station today, I'm extremely keen on recycling so the new station is made out of my old swing set, a recycling box and decorations from my mum's old table. This station … Continue reading Latest on Garden Watch
Myself and Espen took a trip to London for a couple of days this week. As we are both ringers, we both understand the importance of recaptures and the amount of vital data this provides, as well as the excitement of finding a Darvic ringed bird! We visited Hyde Park first just for a walk … Continue reading Ring Reading in London Parks
I've been competing and patching for a year now and am now going into my second year of Patchwork Challenge and loving it! Last year, I went a little quiet during the summer since I went venturing out of the country a lot but this year I have decided to knuckle down and really try … Continue reading Introducing Morfa Bacas to PWC
There's been a lot in the news recently about Marine Conservation and the problems our ocean are having. For me in particular, a sensitive issue was raised by my very own Government who I respected a lot up until last month. The Welsh Government to me are people who listen and people who do try … Continue reading Protecting our seas: Marine Conservation
Dan Rouse 