New bird watching hide for holiday cottage in Wales

 

Over the years our holiday cottage guests have taught us a lot about bird watching here in Stallion Valley where there are lots of species ranging from buzzards to black birds, magpies to mallards and robins to red kites.

 

We provide bird feeders for each of out cottages and bird food for our guests to use.  Tits, coal, great and blue are regulars at the feeders, along with sparrows, finches and nuthatch.

 

Each year, wagtails, ducks, redstarts and swallows return to nest.  This week we have seen the regulars plus jays, gold crest and bull finches

 

Last year our holiday cottage guests spotted a tree creeper nest and this week the same guests have spotted a pair of pied flycatchers nest building in one of our nesting boxes.

 

So yesterday we decided to convert an old shed happilly situated near the pied flycatcher nest box in the hope of getting some good photographs from it.

 

Guests staying at Stallion Valley holiday cottages are conveniently situated to visit bird watching reserves nearby in mountain, wetland and coastal habbitats. Guests can also visit The Dyfi Osprey project and red kite feeding stations

 

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