I was just being flippant as usual anyway (must grow up now I’ve turned 70 
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Pob hwyl, Huw (not Hew - hewrop is just a coincidence)
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Well Huw, is suspect a referendum on whether or not you should grow up would return a resounding NO. (enjoy).
Y feddyges las - self heal.
Llysiau’r milwr coch - Purple loosestrife.
Cynffon y gath - Great reed mace neu bulrush.
Cheers J.P.
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We are very lucky, John. The birds are just outside our windows, usually back, but Tada bullfinch was out front. The orchid was not far away, but none of us had seen one quite like it before. Usually they are pale and quite small. The name makes excellent sense, since in British terms we are certainly north, even though this is mid-Argyll!!!
Helyglys per - Great willowherb.
Ganoderma Latin, sorry no welsh name, some fungi are starting to develop now.
Sioncyn gwair - Field grasshopper (i think).
Llyslau - aphids, llyslau seems to be the generic name for aphids, i have been trying to get a reasonable photo of this for some time. The aphids are being attended by
Morgrugyn coch - Red ants, these seem to guard the aphids and collect honey dew from them, i’m curious as here they are on
Llysiau’r gingroen - Common ragwort which is poisonous to some herbivores and it got mentioned in an earlier post about the cinnabar moth caterpillars that eat this plant, i suppose the sap that the aphids are tapping is not poisonous !! (diddorol iawn i fi).
Gweirloyn y perthi - Gatekeeper.
Chwilen sowldiwr S.P. ar Gorthyfail - Soldier beetles s.p. on cow parsley (other small beetles can be seen on the plant as well).
Star for the day which seems a little late appearing this year.
Mantell wen - White admiral, from the underside it looks like a male (gwrywaidd).
Cheers J.P.
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Cyngaf mawr - Greater burdock.
Melyn yr hwyr - Evening primrose (note the number of pollen beetles s.p. on it).
Helyglys hardd - Rosebay willowherb.
Chwilen goesdew - odemera nobilis (apparently only the males have the swollen back legs).
Lucky find of the day.
Tegeirian y gors deheuol - southern marsh orchid.
Cyfrwy cennog - Dryad’s saddle (unusual here as it is growing on coeden pisgwydden - lime tree).
As ever click on images for full size, the pollen beetles are getting in a lot of photo’s.
Cheers J.P.
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Y ganrhi goch - common centaury.
Crigau’r pannwr gwyllt - Teasle (getting ready to flower).
Barf y afr - Goat’s beard.
In the upper picture is a seed head and to it’s right a bud that’s finished flowering and is now forming the seed head structure to appear soon.
there are a huge number of flowers i do not know and this is one is was noticing earlier in the year with out being able to identify, learning welsh is certainly broadening my horizons. (hopefully next year i will be able to identify this one when young from the several similar species).
Cheers J.P.
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Used to grow in my ‘auntie’s’ garden on Gower. Tried it in our wild garden here, but it didn’t like it and only lasted a year or two!! Hoping to send eurbinc (goldfinch) pic soon. We thought they’d gone when the weather turned cold again, but they were back today (well two were). I looked up collective noun. I like ‘charm’ but not ‘chatter’!!! I thought ‘glory’ would be good!! Are there collectives in Cymraeg?
I guess that would be a good question for Iestyn . (must admit i like the sound of charm).
My book has “Nico” for goldfinch.
Cribau’r pannwr gwyllt - Teasle (appears to start flowering in a ring round it’s middle (saturn flower maybe)).
This looks like a Forest cuckoo bumblebee, sorry no welsh name (note no pollen basket on legs).
Today’s bit of luck at friends house.
Gwybedog mannog - Spotted flycatcher. (getting photo of chicks was easy on step ladder, hiding in car to get photo of parent was much harder, they are very shy).
Cheers J.P.
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I don’t know if you’re as much a fan of the BBC’s Countryfile as I am @ramblingjohn I mention it because it seems to me that any of your photographs would be a very strong contender in the annual photographic competition, the 12 winners having their work published in the annual Countryside calendar which earns huge sums for “Children in Need”. The absolute winner receives £500 of photo equipment.
If you are interested, you can find more info and how to enter here
The closing date is soon (24th July, I think.
If you decide to enter, pob lwc
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You are too kind with such comments but thank you very much indeed.
I’m still waiting for the photo that has something special about it, i’m in no particular hurry for that and have no idea what it will be, that i suppose is how i view whats outside, a continual mystery tour.
Cheers J.P.
My geiriadur mawr, which is so heavy I only check it now & then, has nico, eurbinc and teiliwr llundain if you look under ‘birds’ and eurbinc if you look under ‘goldfinch’ in the general dictionary!!
I’m glad some people are seeing bees!! I have been pollinating my tomatoes with a little brush and we had no plums this year. I do hope it doesn’t mean Argyll is now a bee-free-zone!!
I agree with Huw about your photographs!!! That bee one for starters!!!
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Thanks for the heads up on the extra names, perhaps i will understand one day, then again we have more than one name for many things in English.
The tomato problem is interesting as there may be other little critters (crads bach) which are doing the pollination for you. of course i cannot be sure and there is a little idea for an experiment which would involve how many critters visit one plant in a day. oh for more time, i get these ideas then get diverted by another interest.
I cannot say for sure how many bees Argyll would be home to but i know one of Britain’s bees is now only found on northern coastline. I have been looking at species maps which does show you are low on grasshoppers. (Wales looks good (i may even see one new to me Harlech sand dunes next week)).
And word relationships are proving interesting (if they are related), this evening if find that ‘gwlithod’ is slug but ‘gwlith’ is dew. (damp grass, more slugs, seems to add up) now can i remember them.
Cheers J.P.
I’m afraid this is not a good picture. It looked much better on the 'phone!
eurbinc or nico! I think I like ‘nico’ better!
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Hmm… Looking closely at the black and yellow longhorn beetle, I think I see the “missing” leg just folded under the front of its body.
Oh dear, i have really slipped up with that one, i view days images as thumbnails and open which looks best quality, this method is faulty (well i am at fault). looking through the sequence i find one from a different angle that shows clearly you are right.
Chwilen Hirgorn ddu y melyn - Black and yellow long horn beetle (with complete set of legs).
Thanks very much indeed for such detailed attention, and thanks for occasionally editing my typo’s, i did notice you had been.
Yr ethiop - Old lady (moth - gwyfyn).
Only the third time i have seen this species, then one turns up in someones room, lucky days.
Cheers J.P.
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Clouded border, there is was just sitting on a leaf waiting for me.
No official welsh name i know of but ‘Ffin cymylog’ is a nice translation.
Trying to learn a few more plants (one of many weak area’s).
Milddail - Yarrow.
Mafon - Raspberries.
Llaethysgallen lefn - Smooth sow thistle.
This one interested me as the English name is sow thistle, yet growing up in the countryside we called them milk thistles which seems inline with the welsh name. A broken stem leaks thick white sap which looks like milk.
Cheers J.P.
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There was something on TV about herbal remedies and ‘milk thistle’ was mentioned. That was all in English on BBC, so I’d say you are right!! Nobody mentioned sows!!!
Thanks for the input, i’m not sure about the history of the name (sows may have had a different interpretation in the past).
Hope you are still trying to get a photo closer of the Nico.
Now what critters with a welsh name may come to a moth trap (last night was rather good).
Chwilen gorniog fechan - Lesser stag beetle (the first i have seen).
Teigr cochddu - Ruby tiger.
Siobyn cynffon felen - Yellow tail.
Isadain felen amryliw - Broad bordered yellow underwing.
Gwyrdd mawr - Scarce silver lines.
Gwyfyn brith - peppered moth (often used as an example of how industrial pollution affected genetic selection).
Pryf gwellt - caddis fly.
Pryf ichnewmon - ichneumon fly s.p. (apparently over 3000 species of these, and not a great photo. The long spike on its tail is completely harmless to us as it is an ovipositor (egg laying tube) which it uses to probe deep into material including wood to lay it’s eggs on other larvae.
Offion melyn - Yellow ophion (what can i say, another marvel of nature). Click on image for full size, it really is incredible.
Cheers J.P.
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Storciaid - Storks
I went through the whole thread and I didn’t see them in here yet.
I have the chance to observe them through my kitchen window year after year how they arrive, repair their nest, raise their little-ones, gather and then depart … We know, when they’re returning the Spring is finally here and when they depart, the Autumn will soon be here too.
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‘whole’.
da iawn Tatjana, dy saesneg di yn well 'na fy ngymraeg (fi).
Well done Tatjana, your English is better than my Welsh
Even more thanks for the Storcaid photo that is a great view to have and a species i don’t think we ever get here.
Cheers J.P.