Machynlleth, Powys: After many decades of the closest observation, good humour and protection, she will be much missed

Every other Saturday for 41 years, the word “Machynlleth” would alert nature-lovers to Bill Condry’s latest dispatch for the Guardian’s country diary. His milltir sgwâr – “square mile” – was the RSPB’s Ynys-hir nature reserve, of which he was warden.

On my way north this week, I turned in here. While there, two ravens quarrelled