Late post from April trip to N.Wales 1 of 2

I totally forgot to post about this a few months ago when I had my first week of the year on the North Wales coast. We had a lovely week at my favorite cottage where we have been going for a few years. The location is perfect as its close to the little Orme with views of the sea and gets the most amazing sunlight first thing in the morning. On one of the days we spent a day walking from Conwy to

Llanfairfechan to see if the local swans had nested on a marine lake but unfortunately they had not started. No Swans nesting on the lake but what we did find were some lovely rivers flowing into the sea perfect for photographing and filming Sea trout later in the year. The bird we ended up finding at the lake was a female Goosander who was quite happy to let us close to get a few photographs. There were a few kids around chasing the ducks so we had to wait till the bird felt comfortable to stay still. If somebody got to close she would jump back on the water for safety.

The female Goosander getting blown around on the windswept lake

 
One female Mallard gets totally mobbed by her suitors

As the sun went down it cast a stunning golden light over the lake reflecting from the sea onto the area

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Mike

Things people Do for a selfie #idiots

In April we watched a group of 4 people disturb 40+ Seals beaching on Angel bay at the Little Orme, Llandudno just for a few Seal selfies. This got me thinking if they had published the photographs online.  I ended up finding the photographs on the #littleorme on Twitter and Instagram. I searched for the photographs so I could try to find out why they would do such a thing as I cant understand why anyone would. We took a few photographs from above Angel  bay as they pushed closer to the Seals which got forced into the water just so these idiots could get a selfie.

Off back up the cliff after disturbing the Atlantic Grey seals from there safe haven!!!

 I looked on Instagram and below is what I found...

 It angers me what people will do for a photo especially when there is a sign stating to not disturb the Seals when there on the beach. Here's a few links to there accounts

and when they got closer the seals went and did not return all day!!. I thought I would ask them on Twitter why they thought it was worth it. I got no reply from RM or SB which I think means they don't care about disturbing animals or are they ashamed of what they did and had no idea they would be caught out.

In the first photograph you can clearly see seals in the background and in the last photo all the Seals are in the sea meaning they disturbed the Seals just to get some photographs which in my eyes and a few others is selfish and disrespectful.

 Here's a close up of the Seals in the background of the photographs

And when they pushed to close the Seals were disturbed!!!!

One Seal out of 40 remains on the beach hidden behind a rock

.PLEASE DON'T DISTURB WILDLIFE JUST FOR A PHOTOGRAPH ITS NOT WORTH IT.

.IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE NOTHING TO YOU BUT IT CAN HAVE BAD EFFECTS ON NATURE.
THE ATLANTIC GREY SEALS ARE RELEASED HERE FOR A REASON TO KEEP THEM SAFE AND UNDISTURBED SO PLEASE DON'T DISTURB THE SEALS AT ANGEL BAY, LITTLE ORME LLANDUDNO.

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Mike

First week of 2016 on the coast

I thought it would never get here but last week I go my first week on the coast of North Wales. I worked out that last year we had the same week on the coast so it was interesting to see the difference in this Spring compared to last Spring. Hopefully I will find some time in the next few days to get back to blogging as normal. From Seals to Dolphins to Foxes we had quite a nice week unfortunately we did not get to all the places we wanted. I also enjoyed a few lazy sleep in days but after walking 20+miles in one day so you can understand why. I'm back on the coast in June for a couple of weeks so not to worry and as I have already started to plan that when we got back on Saturday.

Until then here is a few photographs I took while enjoying a mixed week of weather on the coast..

Watching and hearing the Chough's coming into roost was a lovely end to the last day

 Will be walking here sometime in the future

4 individuals disturbed a colony of Atlantic Grey Seals last week but that deserves a blog of it's own

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Mike