Red kites circled as we pulled into Aeron View Camping, near Tregaron, leading Sue, the owner, to declare, “What a welcoming committee for you!”
Next day we watched as the kites swirled above us before suddenly swooping down for food, one very swiftly following the other, in a balletic display of agility and grace. What a spectacle, and just one of many on our marvellous mid-Wales trip.
A couple of days earlier we'd watched ospreys wheeling over Morben Isaf, near Machynlleth, and been enchanted by getting a close-up of their three chicks, nonetheless exciting for being through binoculars and also via a hidden camera in the Dyfi Wildlife Centre next door. On the same blissfully quiet campsite we'd been mesmerised by dozens of siskins, chaffinches, jays, goldfinches, woodpeckers and blue tits as they fed on nuts and seeds whilst we peeked out from a hide. We'd walked back to Roly, our motorhome, through a wildflower meadow around which a path of the softest, springiest grass, had been cut.
This trip also marked a rather unusual ‘first’ for me, that of having no less than five of the most beautiful tropical butterflies balancing on my hands all at once. In between we'd been wowed by legendary falls and surprised by the sight of a prehistoric forest on a beach. Hundreds of tree stumps draped in slimy seaweed cover the vast sands at Borth,
