Recent content by Mike Webb

I'm not convinced. If there were they would be easy enough to track down. They would be escapees and would likely be semi tame ( certainly not accustomed to hunting for their food) and not able to survive inconspicuously I don't reckon.

I once saw a huge dog otter in Caersws that shocked me. I think the males can be a lot bigger than the females.

Heated socks! 😁 My feet go cold and numb no matter what I'm wearing on my feet 🙄

Guys / admin / mods, why can't I add images or delete posts?

It's only a matter of time before a GW is filmed taking a seal. Our sea temps are comparable with areas on the eastern seaboard of the US where they are present. It's no secret that they are present and probably breeding in the Med as well.

Yes that's right. As a kid I remember seeing huge 'tunny' on display in, I think, Powys castle (or similar) and reading up on it to learn that they were fished out of existence. I think it was also partly due to the collapse of the herring fisheries?

Because some huge trawler will find them and take them?

I hooked a seal once near Aberdaron on the lleyn and it gave a good account of itself. 😃 Edit: I'm not actually sure if it was hooked, but either the hook pulled or it let go of the dead bait I was using 🤷

Here's a treat if you haven't yet seen it. Wait for it!

Is it also possible, do you think, that less people are fishing these days after a 'heyday' 10 to 20 years ago? I only recently returned to barbel fishing and this forum after a ten yearish absence.

Personally, I'd put belief that burbot still exist just behind belief in the Loch Ness monster, but apparently there is new evidence that Nessie is real, so you never know! 😁

Perhaps that's right about the grouse moor 'firewall'. They do seem to like grouse - not many in Wales, so do you not believe that could hinder a reintroduction? 'No grouse here, so let's eat lambs boys!' 😁

Interesting, thank you. I can't see it happening personally. I'm no ornithologist, but Scotland isn't that far away and you'd have thought that the birds would have taken up residence without the help of humans if the habitat was suitable. I'd love to see them though.

I don't think they're still here tbh. Reports and pictures would have surfaced surely. Having said that, I didn't believe that there was a golden Eagle resident in Wales until it was found dead last year.

Yes I agree with you. It's like the proposed golden Eagle reintroduction to Wales - fanfared by ERW and then the prospect immediately all but squashed by Natural Resources Wales.