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Walking above Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Lyndsey

We have been taking a holiday at home. We spent last weekend at the green man festival and now we are doing a bit of walking.

Today we walked above the village of Cilycwm, it’s about 15 minutes from our place. The hills are covered in bilberries and heather, they also become quite wild as you approach the tops. Today we sat on a craggy outcrop, eating bilberries and watching two peregrine falcons fight with a couple of crows.

We did, what I would consider, a spectacular walk with: rivers, water meadows, high moor, crags, deep ravines, pretty villages and more wildlife than you can shake a stick at.

The area is well worth a visit if you are a walker or mountain biker (look up Cwm Rhayader for a fun red run).

It’s also the home to the fun Small Nations festival, which we missed for the first time in four years this year.

Spring has sprung

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Lyndsey

Carmarthenshire has the wonderful advantage of a lot of wildlife, much of it seemingly on our land. Over the last week or so we have seen six female red deer (who seem to have moved in), hedgehog activity, noctule bats, shrews and voles all over the field, bumble bees, toads, frogs and newts are set up nicely in the pond, celandines and wood anenomes bursting into flower, an enormous array of birds including: linnet, pied fly catchers, house martins, gold finches, red kite, buzzard, willow tits, bullfinches, wild duck, dipper, herons, Canadian geese, chiff chaff, nut hatches, barn owls, tawny owls, pied wagtails, grey wagtails, song thrush, robin, blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit etc!