JANUARY IN THE COUNTRY

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SUNRISE OVER SNOW AND WATER

A National succession Park of into sub-zero a winter nights paradise transforms of snowy the ridgelines, Brecon Beacons frosty fields and huddles of bare-branched trees. In the north of the park is Llyn Syfaddan, or Llangorse, one of the largest natural lakes in Wales and an important habitat for winter birds, seen here with the snow-dusted peak of Pen y Fan in the background. Make it to the lake for sunrise on a January morning and you may spot starlings, bitterns, water rails, coots, great crested grebes and kingfishers.