Of course you have touched on the problem of any photographic guide (no scale).
The fly would be around 10mm.
I have heard about the giant biting flies in Scotland and would very much like to see a photo of one 
Cheers J.P.
If you mean clegs, when I used to pony trek by Loch Ness, I finally found a repellent that worked, but I assure you, since they could bite through even thick material, I was too busy getting them off me to take pics!!!
Now I hope this pic will come
We made an enlargement, but it was more blurred and too big to send!! We have frequently had this lovely bird perching on the bird table roof or a nearby post and seemingly wondering why the finches had all gone!! But when he/she came to have a bath… !!! (He/she really did, but pic came just after that!)
We think sparrow hawk? Gwalch glas?
p.s. You really did put ‘click image for full size’ by the fly, which implies that the ‘clicked’ pic is the actual real size of the fly!!! 
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This is good as it prompted me to look up ‘not to scale’ yn cymraeg - ddim i raddfa.
Though in my defense (your honour) the ‘click image for full size’ was bracketed 
Its difficult to be sure (for me) but i don’t see any black or white line above the Sparrow hawk’s eyes so suspect this a juvenile.
Back to fruits and berries of autumn. - Ffruwythau ac aeron yr hydref.
Afal - apple.
Draenen wen - Hawthorn.
Draenen ddu - Blackthorn (sloes).
Piswydden - Spindle tree (little pale as yet but they will look great soon.
Cheers J.P.
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I think this makes sense. It has noticed a lot of potential food round our feeders, but doesn’t realise that sitting nearby isn’t a good strategy!!
I have looked and looked for identification of the little yellow flowers by our pond, shown with y lili dwr previously, and I’m now convinced they are lesser spearwort. That is blaen y gwayw according to my geiriadur!!
Sorry I teased you about the fly!! I was being literal minded!! 
That is just what i read into the photo, so thanks for confirming.
Plants remain a difficult one for me.
Llysiau’r sipsiwn - Gipsywort (i think).
Cwyrosyn - Dogwood.
I enjoyed it and being literal in my reply (with the bit about brackets i nearly mentioned BODMAS)
Cheers J.P.
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I spotted a chwilen today & whipped my iPhone out just it time to take a snap for you John. It was lliwgar iawn & moved yn gyflym iawn hefyd so sorry about the quality here!
Having got my phone out I got a bit carried away. I also snapped this toadstool; that cap was 8" in diameter! Can’t see it in llyfr natur Iolo.
Buwch goch 7- smotyn on an ysgallen
Llyffant y gwair rhododendron making it look like I live somewhere quite exotic rather than Oxfordshire.
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Mae hyn yn bendigedig.
Ydach chi wedi gwneud yn well na fi.
The purple beetle (chwilen porffor) is the one i talked about on Saturday.
Carabus violaceus - violet ground beetle, but described as having purple areas!
I took some photo’s of one that came to the moth trap on Thursday night but the photo’s were drwg.
The Llyffant y gwair Rhododendron i have not managed to find yet.
Buwch goch 7 smotyn (braf iawn).
The fungus (yr ffwng) is Macrolepiota procera - Ambarelo’r bwgan - Parasol fungus.
Da iawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
Cheers J.P.
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Your pictures are bendegedig iawn!!! Especially from a mobile phone!!! My only advantage is living somewhere more rural than Oxford!!! 
Well i may have managed to photograph the same flowers today but need to do a bit of book browsing to try and be sure.
Well, here is a close up of the flower, does it fit with what you have found.
What you say about pipa’s photo’s is interesting as not possessing a mobile device i have no idea how these images look on a phone.
Cheers J.P.
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Diolch i ti!
This morning as often over the last month i wandered with the hope of finding a particular caterpillar but didn’t find it, it’s fast getting late in the season but such is wildlife. Never the less of course the day produced some nice finds.
Neidr y gwair - grass snake.
Look at it’s eye in the photo, it looks like one of those cases where the snake has shed it’s skin but the membrane covering it’s eye has not come away with the old skin (as normally happens).
I have seen film where some one experienced has caught one like this and removed the membrane with tweasers, so the problem is obviously not unique. I don’t know if the membrane will come away in time as the snake moves through/against undergrowth but it was i thought of possible interest to others.
Pryf cnawd - flesh fly.
Cap tyllog melyngoch y bedw - Orange birch bolette.
Griset gwinau - Tawny grisett.
Madarch mewndro - Brown roll rim.
Llyffant dafadennog - Common toad (not looking exactly pleased that i had lifted the log he was hiding under).
Pryf y tail - Yellow dung fly (click image for full size (ddim i reddfa - not to scale)).
Cheers J.P.
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It looks like it! Are the leaves long and narrow and is the flower at the top of a long stem?
Your toad picture made me suddenly sympathise with my pup’s desire to flee at the sight of ‘the monster on the step’!!! If that toad looked at her like that…!!! 
I believe the snakes do lose that membrane after a while and before they shed their skin again, but I couldn’t swear to where I read/heard that!!!
I really needed wellingtons to get a plant as they are amongst lots of other growth, but kind of try not to disturb to much (will look again for leaf detail (possibly tomorrow)).
Drudwen ifanc - young starling.
Seren ddaear gyffredin sydd yn datblygu - Common earth stars which are developing (at this point they look rather like bulbs).
Gwyfyn perlog - Mother of pearl.
Picwnen / Gwenynen feirch cyffredin - Common wasp
I have posted a photo of a wasp before but of course forgot to add there are many species of wasp so yesterday tried for some close ups to get familiar with individual species.
Wasps are like Welsh, i have much to learn.
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Lleuad: Moon
Lleuad Lawn: Full Moon.
In honor of the full moon tonight I thought I’d post this pic. I was experimenting with taking pictures in low light. I went outside and the moon was showing through this coeden (tree). I tweaked it a bit in Lightroom to bring out the detail.
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That’s beautiful, Craig. Elin Fflur has a song called “Lleuad Llawn” and I’m guessing it’s an alliterative or poetic thing that “Llawn” isn’t mutated 
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Thanks, glad you like it. I took 5 or 6 pics at different settings. This one really came out nice. I want to get one of the moon over the lake. I’ve woken up a few times in the wee hours and saw it hovering over the lake, really stunning. That was before I got the camera. It’s been elusive ever since though.
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Well here is a more useful photo taken today (i used my hand partly as scale and also to give the camera something to focus on which seemed to work well (still a novice )).
Thanks for the input Jackie, do you think this is good enough for a named label.
Gwych Craig, dach chi’n gwneud well 'na fi.
I had the camera on a tripod to try for moon photo’s but suffered with over exposure, so a few craters visible down one edge and the rest just over bright and no detail.
so thank you very much as i wanted to do something like this as a reason to let people know that a lunar eclipse (earths shadow on the moon) is due at the end of September, unfortunately at 02:30 AM here.
Cheers J.P.
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That would be a nice pic too, wonder if I can get one.
Glad you like the pic. I’m using a DSLR camera which gives a lot of control over settings.
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[quote=“ramblingjohn, post:577, topic:971”]
a lunar eclipse (earths shadow on the moon) is due at the end of September, unfortunately at 02:30 AM here. [/quote]
Oh good - that will be a good time for us to see it here - about 8:30pm.
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I can see the advantages over a bridge camera, never the less i’m hoping to be in north wales when the eclipse happens, if i can get a photo of moon lighting mountains i will be well happy.
Look forward to your images and of course anyone can join in.
Prediction seems to be that Eastern half of North America will see the full eclipse before midnight on September 27th, In the UK it should be in the small hours of Sept 28th. (happy snapping).
Scleroderma areolatum. Latin name but a not particularly common fungus.
Again one of the sawflies that wont pose for a photo.
Teulu Cephidae - wheat stem borer (but several similar so family Cephidae seems most correct).
Ichnewmon yn’r cymraeg - Ichneumon Yn Saesneg. This one was really small approx 5mm, so a pleasing photo.
Effros - eyebright (nice to spot a pretty flower and hopefully identify correctly).
Cheers J.P.
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