Cold and Frosty days at last!
19th January 2020
After another week of thrashing rain and howling winds at last we have some beautiful cold and frosty mornings. The weather is set fair for a few days and it was a pleasure to be out walking yesterday. The day broke with a heavy frost which was most welcome so I filled up the bird feeders around my elevated pool, (see previous blogs), in addition to the other garden feeders. All the water in the garden is frozen so the only available water is in the elevated pool which I melted with a kettle of boiling water. Hopefully the birds will now drink from there allowing me to take a few pics. I’ll give it a couple of days to get the birds feeding regularly and then set up and wait.
As it was such a nice day we decided to go for a drive up to the Elan Valley in mid Wales where it was obvious there would be an abundance of water after the recent weeks.
There are a myriad of crystal clear feeder streams tumbling over moss covered boulders as they navigate their path through coppered hillsides.
There were a few people around but nothing compared to the summer, where quite frankly the heavy motor traffic is intolerable for us. We stopped at various locations on the circular route around the dams and the water cascading over was spectacular.
In the sun it was quite pleasant but standing in any shade was bitterly cold, but still miles better than rain and wind!
We were glad we had brought a thermos flask of coffee and a biscuit, especially when in the afternoon the now watery sun was further diffused behind the winter clouds as the bitter cold enveloped the moorlands above the reservoirs.
As it was such a nice day we decided to go for a drive up to the Elan Valley in mid Wales where it was obvious there would be an abundance of water after the recent weeks.
There are a myriad of crystal clear feeder streams tumbling over moss covered boulders as they navigate their path through coppered hillsides.
There were a few people around but nothing compared to the summer, where quite frankly the heavy motor traffic is intolerable for us. We stopped at various locations on the circular route around the dams and the water cascading over was spectacular.
In the sun it was quite pleasant but standing in any shade was bitterly cold, but still miles better than rain and wind!
We were glad we had brought a thermos flask of coffee and a biscuit, especially when in the afternoon the now watery sun was further diffused behind the winter clouds as the bitter cold enveloped the moorlands above the reservoirs.