On a gloomy day, at a gloomy time of the year and at a gloomy period of history, I should also like to wish readers/contributors to this blog a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. Let us hope that things don't get too bad in the coming weeks and months. I popped out to visit a few damp spots this morning. There were just 50 Wigeon at Pont Gogoyan with a Little Grebe, Little Egret and a Goosander. Nine more grebes at Pant pool with 5 Coots, but almost nothing at Maes Llyn pool and Pont Einon apart from a single Coot. So, no fewer than a whopping 6 Coots in the upper Teifi valley!