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The heavy frost over the last few nights has made walking down by the river Elwy a lot easier now the mud is frozen solid, The two Missel Thrushes on either side of the river singing their hearts out was pleasant to hear yesterday morning and I got another view of one this lunch time when we got bac...

Any unusual birds spotted in last weekends RSPB bird count? We had two Bald Eagles fighting over the carcase of a dead Griffon Vulture when suddenly an enormous Eagle Owl swooped down and killed and carried one eagle off, the other Bald Eagle then flew off with the dead vulture, pursued by a small ...

How's this for service! I ordered a repeat order of 30 kilo's of Bakery Grade sunflower kernels from Hopewells Feeds yesterday mid- morning and it arrived 10.30 this morning. Even better is it's still the lowest price on the internet at £30.95 including post and packaging. At £1.03p a kilo it's ter...

A 6.05am post Colin, that's very early for the cold winter months, were you just rolling home from a riotous night on the town? I like the pic, I think your photo sums up sheep in a nutshell. Sheep have got to be the toughest creatures around, they are out in all weathers including the torrential ra...

The Llanerch bridge picture posted on January 21st, I only just noticed that the large old oak tree that was growing alongside bridge on the far bank right hand side has also been ripped out and swept away. I looked on Google Earth this morning and noticed that several other large trees are also now...

Trefnant to Tremeirchion road bridge 21st Jan 2021.jpg Here is the view that appeared at dawn this morning after a day and night of continuous very heavy rain of biblical proportions in the Vale of Clwyd. This is/was the 19th century stone road bridge spanning the river Clwyd that connects Trefnant...

The beautiful snowy scenes in the Clwyds as seen above continue to attract the idiots here like wasps to a jar of jam! We are all in tier four or five yet still they arrive in their cars, mostly from across the border in England. We wonder; just what part of 'Stay at home, self-isolate, don't travel...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS - STAY SAFE

On behalf of the North Wales Koi Club I would like to wish all our readers a healthy happy New Year. Here are a couple of pictures to cheer you up, our beautiful Vale of Clwyd in it's winter glory, taken today, New Years Eve. In first picture, Tremeirchion village is down to the right of Moel Y Parc...

The rain arrived on schedule Sunday night and with it a big temperature drop, Monday morning dawned fairly clear to a snow capped Clwyds, first snow this winter, just a topping to most of the range, Moel y Parc was just about dusted around the top fifty feet or so but it looked picture book pretty i...