{"id":264,"date":"2015-10-11T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-03-10T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T15:26:01","slug":"bird-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Great places for Bird Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">You will see a variety of birds from your mill apartment window, including wagtails, dippers, woodpeckers, buzzards and even kingfishers, red kites, herons and pied fly-catchers if you are lucky. Each apartment has its own bird spotting book and you are welcome to borrow the field glasses from the summer house.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Pak Villa has more woodland birds and the wagtails are different there &#8211; pied rather than grey (which are actually very yellow).\u00a0 You&#8217;ll still see the buzzards and we saw a barn owl from there, silently travelling down the valley, one still summer night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2hJMq-iVSKQ\" title=\"Kingfisher\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2hJMq-iVSKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">The Teifi marshes nature reserve, with its hides, cafe and water buffalo, is 20 minutes drive away.\u00a0 Then there are the coastal paths and boat trips to places like Ramsey Island and Caldey Island.\u00a0 Visitors often make the trip to the red kite feeding station, where the displays are breathtaking.\u00a0 A visit to the National Wetland Centre at Llanelli is definitely worthwhile, if only to feed the Hawaiian geese from your hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcardigan.com\/bird-watching-west-wales.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.visitcardigan.com\/bird-watching-west-wales.php<\/a><span class=\"a\"> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><b>bird watching <\/b> sites around Cardigan Bay<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosemoor.com\/IPFiles\/Nationalpark\/skomer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.welshwildlife.org\/skomer-stokholm\/<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 <b>Skomer Island<\/b> \u2013 A short boat trip to one of the best bird watching spots in Britain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welshwildlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.welshwildlife.org\/<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">\u00a0our local <b>wildlife reserves &#8211; <\/b>there are 15 in Pembrokeshire (including the Welsh Wildlife Centre at Teifi Marshes &#8211; a significant reserve, 25 minutes from the mill) 12 in Carmarthenshire and 20 in Ceredigion.\u00a0 This site also has information about Skomer and Skokholm Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wwt.org.uk\/llanelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/wwt.org.uk\/llanelli<\/a> <b>National Wetland Centre Wales<\/b> at Llanelli &#8211; bird watching &amp; wetlands you can explore by bike and canoe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">And for something different:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembrokeshire-falconry.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pembrokeshire-falconry.co.uk<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"> &#8211; <b>Pembrokeshire Falconry Experiences <\/b>&#8211; try handling falcons in the beautiful Pembrokeshire countryside.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will see a variety of birds from your mill apartment window, including wagtails, dippers, woodpeckers, buzzards and even kingfishers, red kites, herons and pied fly-catchers if you are lucky. 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