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Not sure what the above are, but look too small to be crows, so maybe ravens or jackdaws?

Says this on their website

The crows are first to turn up in trees around the feeding area and make it quite a noisy affair with the calls of jackdaws and carrion crows and the deep 'cronking' of ravens. Buzzards and red kites circle overhead; buzzards are far more vocal than kites, their powerful 'mewing' carrying a long way.

As soon as the meat has been put out the crow family start emerging from the surrounding trees. As the first crows land amongst the meat the kites go on the offensive. Kites watch and wait their chance to furl their wings and dive in, skimming the ground to snatch a scrap before rising suddenly to escape the beaks of the angry crows.

Many kites appear to miss their target by a wide margin but are actually intent on flushing meat laden crows into the air from where they can be mugged by the very best in the business!

With the meat clutched in its talons the kite will make for clear airspace where it can feel secure enough to feed. With its 1.8 metre wings spread out for stability the head turns down to meet with its forward lifted legs. Now the kite can feed, but must still keep an eye out for other marauding kites...

The number of kites using the feeding station can vary anything from a few score to 600 or more depending on weather and time of year. With the onset of bad weather numbers can increase dramatically, but on blue sky days in spring or summer they may well take their time in coming for their lunch!
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ah, maybe they're carrion crows?
 
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Hopeless for mobile phone connections though - stayed there some years ago - to get the dead early train - in the absence of a full Welsh breakfast , they arranged a decent tray brekkie .....fair play !
 
davesgcr said:
Hopeless for mobile phone connections though - stayed there some years ago - to get the dead early train - in the absence of a full Welsh breakfast , they arranged a decent tray brekkie .....fair play !
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I couldn't use my mobile phone AT ALL in Llandrindod. Had to drive a few miles before I got reception, but once back there, lost it again. :mad:
 
fractionMan said:
there's one across the square, but not at the metropole afaik. We had a lovely wedding disco type dj in the function room :D
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There's the Commodore Hotel with the Log Cabin next door. There was a lot of noise coming from the Log Cabin at 2.30am Saturday gone.

Minnie_the_Minx said:
I couldn't use my mobile phone AT ALL in Llandrindod. Had to drive a few miles before I got reception, but once back there, lost it again. :mad:
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and once again, no mobile signal all weekend, so my sister lent me her phone, and I dropped it down the toilet at the Metropole :oops:

It was frigging freezing yesterday morning.

Frosted up cobweb at the train station yesterday morning

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ddraig said:
i've got to go there this week :(
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Why don't you stay in a B&B instead if you don't like The Metropole? Lovely big rooms and bathroom. I couldn't connect to the internet there though, although himself had better luck with signal on mobile phone than I did, but his is an old analogue one. Metropole is appalling for mobile signal though. According to someone who works there, it's because none of the mobile companies will install a mast in Llandod as not cost effective for such a small town. Don't know how true that is. My B&B manager texted me on Saturday morning to say our room was ready at 11.00am. I got the message the next morning

This is the B&B we stayed in.

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View of Co-op from the window with the hills behind :D

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Same view yesterday morning

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ddraig said:
ta would do, not staying over just a day thing thankfully
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I ran out of things to do on Saturday, so I took a wander to the train station. Saw people on platform and it occurred to me it was nearly 3.30 so I decided to stay to watch the train come in. Some local was looking at me like I was a bit sad taking photos of trains and I told him I wasn't used to seeing one-carriage trains. He then informed me one would be coming from the other direction in a couple of minutes. The excitement of TWO trains at once meant I just had to stay there for a bit longer and they were both single carriage trains :D
 
:D i can well imagine

we used to go up the train station in my village for the very same reason
nothing to do with flattening pennies on the track oh no!
 
Yes, well I was on my own and just having a wander. I went to get a newspaper from the newsagents as well but they'd run out. I asked if anywhere else sold them and Tesco probably would, and he said it was quite a distance though!

It was only a couple of minutes! I went and strolled around the Tesco as well just to kill some time, then I went to the Co-op to kill more time :D

Oh, and guess what! Sunday evening, we decided we'd check out The Commodore for a drink, but it was shut.... at 9.00pm! So we went to the Log Cabin for one, and then decided to find somewhere else. So we walked through town to The Hamilton. That was practically empty, so we decided we may as well go to The Metropole. By this time, it was almost 10.00pm. Bar staff asked if we were resident and we said no, and he told us the bar was now shut as there were hardly any customers. Said if there was more than 10 customers, they'd stay open, but as there was only a few, they shut early :D
 
ddraig said:
groan!
this is why i now live in Cardiff :D
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and I went there Saturday afternoon for a cup of tea. Waited ages for it, and when I got it, it was practically cold. Could actually hold the teapot in my hand with no risk of burning myself. Not impressed. :mad:

As for the food, I personally reckon my brother in law could do a better lamb shank and roast spuds
 
ddraig said:
groan!
this is why i now live in Cardiff :D
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One of the bar staff said it would be full next weekend though as there was something going on. As he was foreign though, I had difficulty trying to figure out what it was, but I think it was something to do with fairies :hmm:

Maybe there's a "fayre" on? :hmm:
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
and I went there Saturday afternoon for a cup of tea. Waited ages for it, and when I got it, it was practically cold. Could actually hold the teapot in my hand with no risk of burning myself. Not impressed. :mad:

As for the food, I personally reckon my brother in law could do a better lamb shank and roast spuds
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name and shame!
 
Great pix Minnie_the_Minx , but recent experience has made us hate those decrepit single-carriage trains on that line. On the morning of Sat 15th Nov just gone, ours broke down on the long uphill stretch (near Cwmhordy/Sugar Loaf) between Llandovery and Llanwrtyd -- we were on the two-hour slow-way from Swansea to the Mid Wales Beer Festival (in Llanwrtyd).

Not only that, but the very same thing had happened, probably to the very same train, at exactly the same time in 2013 -- and that time we broke down at Llanelli :eek:

If we ever go back to that fest, it won't be by train! ;) :hmm:
 
William of Walworth said:
Great pix Minnie_the_Minx , but recent experience has made us hate those decrepit single-carriage trains on that line. On the morning of Sat 15th Nov just gone, ours broke down on the long uphill stretch (near Cwmhordy/Sugar Loaf) between Llandovery and Llanwrtyd -- we were on the two-hour slow-way from Swansea to the Mid Wales Beer Festival (in Llanwrtyd).

Not only that, but the very same thing had happened, probably to the very same train, at exactly the same time in 2013 -- and that time we broke down at Llanelli :eek:

If we ever go back to that fest, it won't be by train! ;) :hmm:
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They're not very warm either. We left on Monday when it was really cold and we were all moaning we had frozen feet :D

Worrying about them breaking down, considering there's only 4 trains a day :eek:
 
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