Category Archives: Wildlife

Buy local and delicious

Posted on April 8, 2014 by bookvolunteer

Posted in Farming, Food, Nature, Wildlife | Tagged Ann Evans, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Glan-y-Mor, Kiel House, local honey, Pembrokeshire | 1 Comment

I was a child vandal

Posted on April 4, 2014 by bookvolunteer

I’m confessing to having played a part in destroying the dunes at Newport. As children we slid down into the hollows, we tunnelled dangerously deep into the sand and we raced heedlessly to get lost in the dips and the tall … Continue reading →

Posted in Crafts, History, Nature, Wildlife | Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, dunes, erosion, Geraint Jenkins, marram grass, Newport sands, Pembrokeshire, sand dunes, Tegfan, The Craft Industries | 1 Comment

Dry Stone Walls

Posted on March 28, 2014 by bookvolunteer

Dinas has miles of beautiful old stone walls and even some relatively new ones. My favourite old walls are up the mountain where they are host to the vegetation that causes their eventual disintegration – and a richness of wildlife. … Continue reading →

Posted in books, Farming, History, Nature, Wildlife | Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, dry stone walls, Pembrokeshire, Preselis, Tegfan | 2 Comments

The Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Spring

Posted on March 25, 2014 by bookvolunteer

Tegfan is within a few hundred yards of the coast path, which provides wonderful walking at any time of the year. The scenery, the flowers, the sky and the sea change from month to month to enchant and delight. It … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Nature, Sea, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged cliffs, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire coast path, Pembrokeshire coastal path, sea, Tegfan, walking | Leave a comment

Spot a chough in Dinas

Posted on March 11, 2014 by bookvolunteer

The RSPB estimates that there are only 250 to 350 breeding pairs of choughs in Britain and I’d say that there’s a good chance that you’ll see some during a Tegfan holiday. With their bright red beak and matching legs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged bird-watching, Birding, chough, coast path, Coastal path, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Dinas Island, Pembrokeshire, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Tegfan | Leave a comment

Wild rabbits on Dinas Island

Posted on March 4, 2014 by bookvolunteer

Did Dinas Island rabbits give birth to ‘Watership Down’? It seems likely that Ron M Lockley’s fascination with rabbits begin when he was farming on Dinas Island during the years of the second world war. His subsequent study on Skokholm … Continue reading →

Posted in Farming, Nature, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, Dinas Island, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire coast path, R M Lockley, Richard Adams, Tegfan, wild rabbits | Leave a comment

A winter walk round Dinas Head

Posted on January 24, 2014 by bookvolunteer

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Posted in Farming, Nature, Sea, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged baby seals, Dinas Cross, Dinas head, Dinas Island, Fishguard, Newport, Pembrokeshire coast path, Pembrokeshire coastal path, Tegfan | Leave a comment

The secret garden

Posted on December 27, 2013 by bookvolunteer

I’ll give you a glimpse of Tegfan’s secret garden. To find it, you have to leave the house and walk down the lane. It’s not far but it’s very secret. You can see the garden in this photo because the … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Wildlife | Tagged cawl, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Tegfan, vegetable garden | Leave a comment

Dinas hedgerows at the beginning of December

Posted on December 17, 2013 by bookvolunteer

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More Galleries | Tagged autumn, climate, Dinas Cross, flowers, hedgerow, mild, Pembrokeshire, Tegfan, weather | 1 Comment

Winter rambles in Pembrokeshire

Posted on November 29, 2013 by bookvolunteer

South West View from Foel Drygarn © Copyright Dave Croker and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Here is a quick preview of the Pembrokeshire Ramblers’ Winter Programme. Their friendly, welcoming website gives much more information and contact details. 23rd Nov: Freshwater West, Angle Peninsula 30th Nov: … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged Dinas, Pembrokeshire, ramblers, walking, Walks, winter holiday | Leave a comment

(Not) Sleeping with wild animals

Posted on November 22, 2013 by bookvolunteer

I must have seemed an awkward and stubborn child. On our summer holidays in Dinas I was lucky to have a bedroom to myself. The sunny room was quite delightful and I slept on a feather bed that I knew … Continue reading →

Posted in Crafts, History, Nature, Wildlife | Tagged Dinas, edwardian, furnishing, Pembrokeshire, style, taste, Taxidermy, victorian | Leave a comment

Same old same old

Posted on November 8, 2013 by bookvolunteer

Had we kept all the post-cards received over the years, our long-standing family connections with Dinas mean that we would now be able to paper a room with versions of this one. The countryside side around Dinas is one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Nature, Sea, Walking, Wildlife | Tagged art gallery, artist, Coastal path, Cwm yr Eglwys, Newport, Pembrokeshire, post cards, prints, Sarah Earl | Leave a comment