Now I envy you John! Always wanted to see a lapwing!
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http://www.s4c.cymru/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=534704343
A rather good wildlife program yesterday with Iolo.
Cheers J.P.
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I mentioned this last week, but I don’t blame you for not noticing and I couldn’t post a link because it was before the first episode was aired! I agree - in fact I find all Iolo’s programmes excellent!!
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I did notice your post but just put a link to this weeks episode as a reminder.
He saw a lot more than i have recently (we need the sun to return).
Heno - tonight.
yr lleuad - the moon.
Cheers J.P.
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On i’n fodus iawn heddiw, i bod allan pan ddychwelodd yr heulwen - i was very lucky today, to be outside when the sunshine returned.
Brithribin gwyrdd - Green hairstreak.
Melyn brych - Speckled yellow.
Mursen las gyffredin (gwrywaidd) ar dail o bedwen arian - (Male) common blue damselfly on silver birch leaf.
(click on images for full size).
Cheers J.P.
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From the Llwybr Arfordir (Coastal Path) around Pen Llŷn (Llŷn Peninsula) a couple of weeks ago with Yr Eifl in the distance
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Also seen on the Llwybr Arfordir
Gludlys gwyn (White Campion)
Clychau’r Gog (Common bluebell)
Probably Tegeirian coch y gwanwyn (Early purple orchid)
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Sadly no dolphins were seen from the Llwybr Arfordir but some cormorants (Mulfran)/shags (Mulfran werdd) put in an appearance, one of which was:
and also this seal (Morlo):
plus, unseen, for me the first cuckoo this year - and indeed the last 2 years, for that matter
Hwyl, John
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Nearly forgot - in the wood above Plas Tan Y Bwlch this was growing(?) on a hemlock(??) tree
I’d assumed it was a fungus, but maybe not - do ffwng ffolk have any thoughts on this @ramblingjohn @pippapritchard ??
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Not me I’m afraid but I am noting the green discolouration on the bark too. Very jealous that you have been to PTYB again.
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I haven’t heard a cuckoo yet this year, but I have intelligence that there is one to be heard from my old house in Oxfordshire.
Rust Fungi from me today. I saw some tweets about them & made a mental note to look out for them as they looked weird & wonderful. Today I got lucky finding 2 in my garden.
Celandine Clustercup Rust. Uromyces dactylidis (maybe)
Nettle Clustercup Rust. Puccinia urticata
Still to find one that likes clychau’r gog
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I don’t know which is of little help (certainly interesting).
I have heard the cuckoo twice (which is the amount i heard it all last year).
Gwennol ddu - swifts arrived Thursday.
Now for some really bad photo’s. (the light was wrong). rhaid mi gwneud yn well - i must do better.
this tree was spotted today on a bird walk, i hope people can see it absolutely covered in oak apples, (there are certainly hundreds and quite possibly a thousand ) on one tree, i have never seen anything like it, this has been reported and may get some specialist attention in the next week, i will return hoping to get better images.
Cheers J.P.
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Yesterday, a handsome moth (gwyfyn) which, until I looked closer, I thought was a dried up piece of leaf on the conservatory door (now released into the wild):
I’m afraid I’m at a loss when it comes to species of moths - all I can add to help identification is that it was about 2cm long.
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As usual, my pics are nowhere near the quality of the rest of you. but the first is just an over view of our wild garden, gardd wyllt, showing the pond:-
The next I owe to Janet managing to get a still out of a little video of one of our smallest and definitely fastest residents!:-
I am sure he/she is a bank vole. One geiriadur renders this as llygoden bengron goch and another as just llygoden goch. As far as I can tell, pengron = vole, so the first would translate back as red vole mouse! Any ideas? One thing, it is very difficult to ever see ‘our’ ffrind bach in a good enough light to be sure of colour, but I certainly wouldn’t ever have regarded him/her as red!!
ps I know his nose looks pointed in this but he honestly doesn’t look like a shrew. I’ll try to find another view!
I think this is better, He/she is so sweet and survived being nearly caught by the sparrow hawk!
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Gwyfyn llenni crychlyd - Angle shades (one i haven’t seen yet this year).
Cheers J.P.
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Heddiw roedd yr tywydd yn well - today the weather was better.
Un rywogaeth o gwyfyn hirgyrn ar flodau o eithin - one species of longhorn moth on flowers of gorse.
Drw gen i, ddim enw’n yr cymraeg ar hyn o bryd - sorry no welsh name at the moment.
Adela reaumurella yn Latin.
Chwilen ysgarlad - Cardinal beetle.
Ydach i’n medru gweld aderyn - can you see the bird.
Cornchwiglen ifanc sydd yn cuddio’n yr gwair - Young peewit which is hiding in the grass.
Cheers J.P.
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[quote=“ramblingjohn, post:2441, topic:971”]Chwilen ysgarlad - Cardinal beetle.
Ydach i’n medru gweld aderyn - can you see the bird.[/quote]
Easier to see a Catholic Cardinal for whom both the bird and the beetle were probably named. 
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I don’t think the bird is called cardinal. What i was never sure of was what a peewit’s ‘proper’ name was. I gather now it is lapwing!
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I didn’t think that bird was a cardinal, I was just commenting on the cardinal beetle (and the bird of the same name) that are basically very bright red with some black.
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Not, I think, usually available in UK - one stray reported in Devon I believe! Must have been quite a gale that was caught in!
Mind, I remember seeing a hoopoe in Swansea! It is a weird feeling, wondering if you are hallucinating! But I gather hoopoe overshoot and end up in southern UK fairly often! Cardinals are rarer!
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