Few years ago Storks were not characteristic for our area. They lived almost only in Prekmurje - North-East region of Slovenia but they just came here years ago and stayed. Now in our region there are about 40 Storks and they became part of our environment now already.
Interestingly enugh, frogs are endangered species in our area and are under protection law, but now storks are here … I’m not sure how government is handling this conflict though.
Oh, and yes, whole … My sydrome is to mix letters when typing. I’m obviously typing too fast since I type as if I’d write in my own language. There’s really no difference which language I type in - Slovene or English now already so yes, mixing letters often happens. Sorry if the word “ehole” means something unappropriate. I’ll edit the post immediately.
Firstly, don’t worry at all about typing errors, i do them as well.
Interesting what you say about Storks there, as we have cranes that have returned to this country recently and to get a photo of them would be a real treat.
Also what you say about frogs sounds the same as here, population going down in numbers (fast).
It was a lovely day here but somehow i seem to fail at getting much in the way of interesting photo’s.
Lindys o’r Mantell paun gloyn byw - caterpillar of the peacock butterfly.
mae’n anodd i fod yn sicr o rywogaethau weithiau.
It’s difficult to be sure of species sometimes. (all part of the fun).
Dau pry hofran heddiew - two hover flies today.
Going by the patternation of rear half of it’s body, and all clear panels in the wings this is. Myathropa florae - Latin name only.
While.
Ffugwenynen - Drone fly. (both were on the same buddlea at the same time).
Dau sioncyn - two grasshoppers.
sioncyn y ddol - meadow grasshopper.
The very short wings show these are both the same species and apparently such colour variation is common.
'Ddrwg gen i! The sun was covered and rain came. Sun came out briefly and nico came back, resulting in that bad picture. It’s gone cold. It was/is wet more than dry. Dim nico!!! I think he and friends went to find sunshine!! Oh, and I couldn’t quite believe how excited I felt at the sight and sound of one bee (the first I have seen this year!!!) - on thyme, not my tomatoes! Similar feeling at finding one decent sized wild strawberry!! We haven’t seen any polinating insects flying about!! Lots of midges, though!!
p.s. great pics as usual, from you.Nice to see caddis, not just larvae!!
Are they? I now feel very guilty at telling Janet that ‘our’ heron had to eat, so why not the frogs in our pond?
To @tatjana
Great pic of your storks. I’ve never seen them before!! (Except on TV)!
p.s. John said pics from Yr Alban were O.K., so I’m sure we’d be happy to see better pics than mine from elsewhere!!
I’ve searched (a bit) on topic if there’s location “restriction” and didn’t find such post to say so (might be on old forum though but I didn’t follow topic that time) so I’ve dared to post. I also knew storks would be interesting for all of you to see so I’ve choosen them.
To be sure, photo’s outside from anywhere will be interesting and welcome so Tatjana didn’t need to ask either.
The idea of this thread is to use one area of possible interest to expand vocabulary yn cymraeg.
led led a byd, mae coed 'n tyfu - throughout the world trees grow. (so we learn the welsh for tree).
Adar yn hedfan - birds fly (you get the idea).
specific names are nice in welsh but not hollbwsig - vital (and often only the Latin name is available (dim problem)).
Henddraig, i hear some sunshine is ordered for Scotland (though it may take a few years to get there).
On a brighter note, you mention some plants and you could really help with photo/ID’s of plants, (if you are keen to post something).
I just happened to be standing in a lucky spot this morning.
Gwas neidr eurdorchog - Golden ringed dragonfly.
Your are ahead of my thinking form earlier, i meant to say that there are many areas that could be useful to others.
Flowers, vegetables, fruit and things like bridges, these will include many common welsh words which i feel need using to etch them on the brain. dan ni’n dysgu mwy bob dydd gyda gilydd. (we can learn more every day together). ((hope that is about right)).
Gwennol y bondo - House martin. (not a great photo, but it does show clearly the white rump of this species which the swallow does not have).
I’m heading for north wales in the morning and may return with rather a lot of photo’s at the end of the week (pwy sydd yn gyffrous) who’s excited.
Crwban is used for both turtle and tortoise. Crwban [y] môr
is sometimes used to distinguish a turtle from a tortoise. The ‘y’ seems to
have dropped in more modern usage as far as I can tell.
These two crwbanod can be tough to tell apart. Red-bellied cooters don’t always
have red bellies. Red-bellies also have red banding on their shells which is
why I believe the first one is a Peninsula Cooter.
First full day in North Wales, we decided to walk up Yr Eifl. I don’t have names for these (in English or yn yr Gymraeg!), hoping someone here can help me out!
These look to me like some sort of wild blueberry, didn’t dare taste one in case I was mistaken though…
Not sure about these, but a lovely colour!
Saw a few of these scattered around, they’re very very soft, they looked like something from a Dr Seuss book!
We call them bilberries, and did in Yorkshire too. But they are wild blueberries! I had big trouble explaining to friend’s small daughter that, although, “half for Suzie, half for basket” was totally fair, I’d prefer, “one for Suzie, one for basket.”!
In our forests there are so many that you can easily gather them for the whole basket or we prefer cannikins. We didn’t know for “american blueberries” about (let’s say) 25 years ago. We only could gather those wild in the forests. This is fruit of my childhood. I always got special twig full of wild blueberries from my grandma when we went in the forest to gather them which I could gather on my own and (of course) eat them.
But now, from the blueberries back to our garden …
If there will be no hail or extreamly bad weather it will bear good as it’s seen from the picture. I actually hardly wait as this sort of grape has extreamly good taste. It’s good for wine but it’s even better for eating by my taste though.
marigold (in both languages as far as I could establish but “ognjič” in Slovene)
It’s good for making all sorts of health purposes. Most used is for skin creams. But in our garden it only suits for decorative purpose.
Well, this is for today as those photos were shot yesterday when I came home from work.
@tatjana They certainly weren’t rare on Yr Eifl! But where I’m from (Cheshire, England), live (Lancashire, England) and where my parents live (Co. Tipperary, Ireland), I’ve never seen them! So rare to me I’d love to be able to grow grapes in my garden! By which I mean I’d love to be able to make wine… Or have a garden.
I think your lower photo is
Plu’r gweunydd - common cottongrass. (growing amongst).
Grug croesddail - cross leaved heath (take my plant ID’s with caution).
Side view of Plas tan y bwlch with Helyglys hardd (rosebay willowherb) over hanging the path.
View form the patio, moody cloud and mist.
Saw around 150 species of gloynod byw a gwyfynod (butterflies and moths) during the week, with plenty of other wildlife as well, will upload a few over the weekend.
Emrallt mawr - Large emerald.
Teigr yr ardd - Garden tiger.
Clouded border, have not found welsh name for this species, i put here as this specimen prompted some discussion about asymmetry of pattern.
@ramblingjohn Those are gorgeous, both the scenery and the butterflies/moths! I would frame that first one and hang it on my wall It’s fascinating that there are SO many different kinds of butterflies and moths, with such intricate colors and markings.
I’d love to be able to grow grapes in my garden! By which I mean I’d love to be able to make wine… Or have a garden.
