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Easter Breaks
Don’t tell too many people but spring is one of the nicest times to visit Wales. Yes it might rain, but it might not! And a little rain never hurt anyone, honest. Fresh pastures, spring flowers, gamboling lambs and not too many tourists to spoil it all. Take advantage of one of our short break deals. 3 Night Weekend Break: £94.50 per person Inc. breakfasts (10% discount) 4 Night Midweek Break:... [Read more]
Autumn Breaks
Were lucky here at Byrdir to live in one of the UK’s true remaining wildernesses. The quieter autumn season offers a great opportunity to discover and explore this area. And once the summer rush is over we try and reduce our prices a little bit so there’s no excuse not to come and visit. Standard Rate: £30 per person per night including breakfast 3 Night Weekend Break: £81 per person Inc. breakfasts... [Read more]
Family Life With The Ospreys
The Glaslyn Ospreys are now proud parents to three chicks, the second chick was born on Thursday 14 May at 6.10am and the third chick was seen at 5.42am Sunday 17 May. The recent stormy weather is a cause of concern with some twigs been blown off the nest early this morning (Monday 18 May), however the chicks are safe and well and the mother is doing an excellent job of mantling the chicks to protect... [Read more]
Royal Welsh, Small Holder and Garden Festival
We escaped from the farm last week to go to the ‘Small Holders Fair’ which is held every year in Builth Wells on the Royal Welsh Show ground. We don’t get a chance to go to the Royal welsh itself as it’s held in late July. A busy time for us. So the Small Holders Fair provides a welcome alternative. It’s a great fair and I can highly recommend it. We loved looking at all the pedigree sheep... [Read more]
Troy and Gabriella, Two Welsh Harlequin Ducks
We have two new arrivals at the farm. A pair of Welsh Harlequin Ducks. I let the children choose their names. Hoping they might come up with something traditional and welsh sounding. Rhiannon and Llywelyn perhaps. They quickly settled for Troy and Gabriella of course. Never mind. According to Wickipedia, the breed was first established back in the 1940′s by a farmer from Criccieth which is nice... [Read more]
Upland Escapes
We’re very proud that ‘Upland Escapes’ have selected us as one of their accommodation providers for their packaged walking holidays. Upland Escapes, founded in 2005, offer flexible and guided walking holidays for their clients. With established destinations in places such as the Austrian Alps the French Pyrenees and Grand Canaria they were keen to establish another base in Snowdonia. It’s... [Read more]
Dell, by James Nash
Dell, our border collie continues to be a favorite of many of our guests. If I’m digging in the garden however, she has a slightly annoying habit of carefully placing a stick exactly at the the point where I’m about to sink my spade. I usually throw it to one side slightly annoyed. But this is exactly what she wants naturally. She tears off to fetch it before carefully placing it at the... [Read more]
Sowing the Seeds
I’ve been busy putting some seeds down again this year. Nothing too exiting at the moment. I’m hoping that it’ll be ok to use some of the seed that I have left over from last year as well as a couple of new verities I’ve bought online. We’ll soon find out I guess. Unfortunately I never organized a proper diary to record what I did last spring. I did scribble notes on various pieces of paper... [Read more]
Red Kites
A pair of Red Kites seem to be regulatr visitors to the farm these days. We see them most freequently in the morning hovering over the fields next to the house. They’re easily distinguished from our resident Buzzards by their forked tails, giving them their welsh name “Boda Wennol” or Swallow Hawk. The UK Red Kite population was, at one stage, reduced to 10 breeding pairs in remote locations... [Read more]
Dry Stone Wall Building
Spent a very pleasant afternoon in the sunshine yesterday repairing a hole, or ‘bwlch’ in welsh, in one of the miles of dry stone walls we have here on the farm. Snowdonia is covered with a network of dry stone walls dividing farms into separate fields. Many of the stone walls here at Byrdir are especially impressive as the farm used to be used to grow crops for a nearby estate called Gors Y... [Read more]
