Visitors Geese

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Access rights to 54 Folland Road 


> Each April a pair of Canadian geese arrive and make home at the lake. They have been granted an unlimited visit visa . They raise a family of 8 chicks and strut their prideful shelves for the next two months . Then the ones that have survived the foxes' jaws depart only to return the following year. No, it's very strange that only a pair returns . The fox has not been granted an entry  visa but visits anyway. 

> Other visitors are a pair of herons . They like perching on the branches of the tall dead tree. A beautiful sight as the tree is bare of leaves leaving a nice silhouette against the purple heather of the mountain side.  The herons will keep an eye on you as you enjoy 54. The red kite, jackdaw , owl and buzzard circle the woodland and lovely if you catch it doing a beautiful swoop into the field. Permission to occupy the airspace has been granted.

> The occasional cat provides a pleasant company , the black one , the three coloured ones they say are good mice hunters. Then they disappear.  I  doubt that they are stray as they are quite comfortable with closeness to your presence. Again unlimited visiting visa has been granted.

> The nearby stream leads to a short waterfall . An ideal spot to watch the odd salmon wriggle its way upstream.  Keeping it company on its travels upstream  you can find trout seeking shelter underneath the stones. 

> Sadly sheep have not visited for a while. I guess that is a testimony that the nearby farm Glyndreinog seems to be a country home rather than a place of rearing livestock. The other farm Tycoch is a listed building and its fields tend to have horses rather than marauding sheep . 

> And finally the fox hunts used to come up the access road up through the woodland through Glyndreinog Farm  and out towards the mountain have dried up .  The notice was a bugler and pack of barking dogs . No permission granted but would you argue with that lot  coming towards you . To see a foxhunt , boxing day in Llandeilo is a good day out , mulled wine and minced pie and banter at the local pubs. 



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