A siampion oedd o hefyd!
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on i’n lwcus iawn heddiw i weld pethau wahanol.
Dryw - wren.
Neidr ddefaid - slow worm.
Madfall - common lizard (first of the year, warming it’s self on an old tyre).
Penhwyad - Pike (it was returned to the water and swam off quite happily).
I’m quite curious about the pike’s welsh name, which seems to relate to ducks, something about the language i don’t know!
As usual click on photo’s for larger version (rather pleased with the Lizard).
Cheers J.P.
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Everytime I look at this thread I sit here going “Wow … oh wow!” at the photos. I don’t know how you get such clear detail John. The photos are amazing!
What Dee says. Your work is one of my main reasons for visiting the forum. 
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I totally agree. Amazing photo’s John. Thank you so much for sharing them.
Honest folks it’s just time and take many photo’s.
The four images above are from 31 taken.
I’m pleased with the wren, as i have been trying to photograph one of these since the new year, they often sing or search for food near my feeder in the woods, but are normally distant or moving so the images are blurred (today i got lucky).
The lizard is my sort of photo in that it isn’t posed, there are out of focus twigs across the image and shadows across the subject, all negatives as far as many photographers are concerned, but to me it’s a real image and the reason i chose this bridge camera so point and click hopefully capture the moment.
I like the American coast photo of a few days ago for the same reason, it looked natural and reminded me of days on the coast with a similar view.
Please don’t think i’m critical of what other photographers do, they aim for perfection and i salute the effort they put into their guest.
Cheers J.P.
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Agree totally!! Lovely to see slow worms again, we get lizards near here, but I don’t recall slow worms, which I saw often on Gower!! By the way, we don’t see kingfishers either, but I believe they, like herons, swallow their prey whole. They surely have smaller crops than herons? Do they ever eat amphibians?
That’s a good question, we are used to the classic photo of kingfisher with small fish in it’s bill, but small amphibians i don’t recall seeing that but it’s something i will keep in mind next time i’m near a bird expert.
Update from the RSPB site. (thinking, adult frogs would be way to big for a kingfisher to swallow).
Kingfishers eat mainly fish, chiefly minnows and sticklebacks, but they also take aquatic insects, freshwater shrimps and tadpoles etc to top up their diet. They prefer fish about 23 mm in length, but can handle anything up to 80mm long.
oedd dipyn o heulwen heddiw a wnes i weld yr Gwiber.
Gwiber - Adder, i suspect (but can’t be certain) this is a female due to colour.
Head to left of image is facing away from camera so not a great photo, but it does show how well it’s camouflage works.
Cheers J.P.
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I think that makes it a great photo! I still remember the scream of terror given by a WI member who went to pick a bit of litter out of a gorse bush and nearly picked up a perfectly camouflaged adder as well!! Snake-phobia can be very sad. I had a neighbour who killed an innocent grass snake with a broom handle because, to her, all snakes were nasty dangerous creatures!! Slow worms faced the same dangers!!
Wyt ti’n siwr, J.P? Mae’n edrych i fod ar y chwith. 
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Unfortunately that is a familiar story.
Oh dear, when will i get a brain (thanks hawkeye 
Cheers J.P.
If it’s any consolation, I didn’t notice until Hew pointed it out!!!
Thanks.
What is impressive, is this forum software, as i quickly edited the post (so nobody will know!).
And the ability to do multiple quoted replies is neat indeed, (wonder what other functionality we will discover over time).
Cheers J.P.
I suppose you realise that you have caused all that followed to totally confuse others!! He put “head facing right” first, folks!!!
One thing that can defeat edited posts is if someone quotes it before the OP edits/corrects it (true of most forum SW of course).
+1 to John’s comment on the forum software. It’s pretty good in that and many other respects.
Oh dear, it looks like my secret is out, yes i can make mistakes, siiiiiiigggggghhhhh.
Cuddliw - Camouflage. The Gwiber was in the same place today and this image may give some idea of how well camouflaged it is. Does my shadow look like anyone from star wars, if so its coincidence and i suppose i need a hair cut.
A different resting position today with head near the middle, i took this as i have been told that people who study these get to know different individuals by the different patterns on their head, so if i see any others i will try for an image as comparison.
Cheers J.P.
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I studied the baby one who came and sat on my anorak for quite a long time, but could not say it had a noticeably different pattern to any other!! Now I will take great interest if you show us multiple individuals, all different!! We get black adders up our hill, but my lungs are not up to getting me there, so I can’t do the research myself!!
Well, it depends on me being lucky enough to see several individuals, i would be very happy with that as all reports suggest numbers are falling.
Mantell goch - Red admiral.
The sun popped out for a few minutes and this butterfly appeared as if from nowhere and landed on my boot. It is rather faded but has got through the winter, and it’s shadow shows nicely the notch missing from it’s wing. Here we are not quite spring yet but plenty of signs its getting nearer.
Cheers J.P.
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Lwcus iawn iawn heddiw i weld Dringwr bach sydd yn dechrau codi nyth.
Dringwr bach - tree creeper.
Some fairly large twigs, must be awkward but the bird seemed to manage just fine.
Here is where the bird was disappearing into a dark crevice.
Cheers J.P.
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Blodyn Y gwynt - Wood anemone.
Cheers J.P.
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