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Brandy House Farm,
Felindre, Knighton, Powys, UK. LD7 1YL. 01547 510282
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Radnorshire
Wildlife Trust has a conservation lease on the Beacon
Hill Common, and as such birdlife is abundant. It is predominantly
upland heath and retains a wonderful wilderness
atmosphere rare in the UK today.
It is said that
Mid Wales has the greatest density and diversity of
birds of prey in Southern Britain.
Walking the the
Beacon, you may see upland birds such as Meadow
Pipit, Skylark, Whinchat, Buzzard and Wheatear. Curlew
are also found in the wetter areas as occasionally are
Snipe. Ring Ouzel, Peregrine, and various Owls can be
seen, and we have often seen the rare Red Kite. During
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| Further afield there are several
excellent reserves You might like to visit.
Gigrin Farm and nature Reserve
Lake Vernwy
RSPB Reserve
Dyfi Osprey
Project
Stiperstones
National Nature Reserve
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The Renown Red Kite
feeding station and nature reserve at
Gigrin Farm
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Wild red
kites are fed at Gigrin Farm every day of the
year. It is a spectacle not to be missed
(feeding from oct through to March is at 2pm and
from March onwards at 3pm).
The number of kites using the feeding station
can vary anything from a dozen to 300 or more
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Watch red kites
feeding, and see their feats of
aerial piracy as they compete with
buzzards and ravens to choice pickings.
The site has 5 large hides facing east,
and, being just metres away from where
the kites sweep down, the hides give
excellent opportunities for photography.
The farm trail is on part of the 200
acres of grassland and woodland where
wildlife and birdlife is abundant,
passing a new wetland area. |
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The RSPB visitor
centre at
Lake Vernwy
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Lake Vyrnwy is popular with
both birdwatchers and families alike as it
offers a full range of facilities, including a
shop, nature trails and birdwatching hides.
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Heather moorland, woodland,
meadows, rocky streams and a large reservoir
attract a wide variety of wildlife to this
reserve set at the southern end of the Berwyn
Mountains (approx an hour from the Brandy
House). Dippers and kingfishers nest by the lake
and rocky streams, while ravens and buzzards can
be found on the moorland.
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You should be able to see
and hear pied flycatchers and redstarts, while
dippers nest by the lake and rocky streams,
great crested grebes and goosanders bob on the
water, and above you ravens, buzzards and
perhaps a peregrine soar in the skies.
Although the hillside makes for difficult
terrain, one of the hides in the reserve is
accessible by wheelchair. There's plenty for
children too, including nestbox trails and bat
and owl walks. And if you're new to birdwatching
there are regular events throughout the summer.
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| The Dyfi Osprey Project is
situated on Montgomery Wildlife Trust's Cors Dyfi Nature
Reserve, three miles south of Machynlleth (approx an
hour from the Brandy House) |
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Trust built the nest out of sticks, wire and a
50ft telegraph pole in 2007, in an attempt to
attract a pair of breeding ospreys to the site
near Machynlleth. The nest was daubed with white
paint in an attempt to imitate bird droppings,
so the birds would think it was an established
nesting site. In 2009 a pair of ospreys
nested on this specially erected platform on the
estuary.
The project have erected a
hide and there is a visitor centre with free
admission (open daily 10am - 6pm April to
September) Visitors can view the osprey on two
large plasma screens - and also hear them, too,
because over the winter, the Trust placed two
high-definition cameras and a microphone on the
nest to allow a true birds'-eye perspective |
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The Stiperstones National Nature
Reserve contains a large part of the Stiperstones ridge
in south Shropshire. (approx an hour from the Brandy
House). The lower areas of the reserve are dominated by
heather and gorse heath, while ling and bilberry
predominate higher up. The best time to visit the site
is in late summer, when the heather and gorse is in
bloom.
The reserve contains common lizard, brown hare and
common frog. Birds found here are curlew, red grouse,
skylark, meadow pipit, stonechat, buzzard, pied
flycatcher and wood warbler. Invertebrates include
grayling and green hairstreak butterflies, and fox and
emperor moths.There is
open, and well used, public access to the reserve which
still retains a wild and unspoilt character that has
been captured by writers such as Mary Webb, D H Lawrence
and Malcolm Saville! |
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~ The Brandy House Farm ~
Felindre, Knighton
Powys, UK,
LD7 1YL
Tel: 01547 510282
info@brandyhousefarm.co.uk
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