What's outside

Well, i have been checking to be correct, and the RSPB information is that a few actually nest in south east England, numbers swell this time of year with migrants from northern Europe and they spread south and west so through the winter can be seen in Cornwall and south Wales.

Your are perfectly correct (i’m not very good with English).

Pholiota squarrosa.

Malwen s.p. - Snail species (nice looking snail but i’m not sure about species). Click image for full size, the growth rings are i think really impressive, it’s easy to say this is a type of leaf snail but the internet tells me there is approximately 40 species of those.

Cacynen gyffredin ar Cwmffri - Buff tailed bumble bee on comfrey (a bit of sunshine and they still appear).

Hen car, on the road an old car went by, just never know what we will see.

Cheers J.P.

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Haha! :slight_smile: Neither am I sometimes. :slight_smile:

Well done, now, next time you post a copyn, please start your post with the words “Copyn alert” so that all arachnophobes are warned!!!
Oh dear, I sound like a tetchy Headmistress!! I didn’t mean to, I’m really quite a sweet natured, well meaning old draig!!!

to @ramblingjohn I love the hen car!!! I always loved, as I put it at a Motor Show in about 1960, “Cars that look like cars, not washing machines!” :grinning:

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I was thinking they look like they’d go well with Koolaid. LOL

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The berries on the rowan (criafolen) appear to be nearly ripe enough for the birds.


The rowan is often called the ‘Mountain Ash’ because of the similarity of the leaf shape but the rowan has a toothed edge to each leaflet and the ash (onnen) does not.

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Oh where are you? Our berries are still green!!!
p.s. The moon here was not big last night. When it turned red in the early hours it was smaller than it often is!! (I was asleep, but a friend saw it and took pic to prove it!!) I will not post this as it is merely the pic of a very, very small reddish moon!!

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Well, after a busy three months with family, visits and holidays I have spent the last two hours catching up with Rambling John’s photos! Having been to the dentist earlier this morning, and needing some quiet time, I thought it was an ideal opportunity. WOW! What a feast for my eyes over more than 500 posts, not to mention reading some of the posts too. I know that John can spot things that I would never see unless they were pointed out to me. And I was lucky enough to spend time with him at a Bootcamp when we visited Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) and climbed to the very top, searching for the burrows of the puffins (pal) and see other birds too.

Many thanks John, and also other contributors to this topic. My eyes will now linger a little longer on things that I see in an attempt to appreciate, and maybe record, some of our vast number of varieties of plants and insects. Being a walker and an allotmenteer I should have plenty of opportunity.

Diolch yn Fawr iawn pawb.

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Up in the Pennines above Huddersfield, but my tomatoes are just starting to redden a bit.

And here’s some more edibles:


Broccoli

Ffa

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Better than I did. It was a bit overcast, I could see the full moon but once the eclipse started nothing. No sign of the reddish moon at all.

Same here. Lovely seeing a wonderful, bright full moon, and lovely seeing the eclipse gradually working over it. But no red tinge that I could make out!

I’m still glad I stayed up to see it, though! :blush:

I went out with camera and tripod last night to see what I could see. I took a ridiculous number of photos! Definitely a red tinge in the northeast US near/at totality. My longest lens is only 250mm, so these are very heavily cropped.

Edited to add the Welsh for lunar eclipse: Diffyg ar y lleuad. Thanks to @craigf, who figured that out!

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Good job @AnnaC! I failed to do anything this time but my excuse is I was hurrying to work and too, just a small portion amount of time to do some photographing (it was 4:10 am and I have to prepare and go from home at approximately 5:20).

The best I’ve managed is something like this:


This one really can’t be of any my pride and what I shot with zoom were all blurry. But yes, the Moon was red in deed.

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Mae broga yn yr ardd ddoe.

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Mae e’n hyfryd iawn!

What a lovely pic!! Da iawn!!
To @tatjana your pic was roughly like ours!! I’d say yours was clearer!!

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I like your red moon! I was very lucky to be able to take my photos from about 9:15pm to 10:30 pm. And also very lucky that mae’r tywydd yn braf. I would not have taken any photos at 4:10 am! :sleeping:

O, I did take them quite some but not one is what I wanted to be. I almost missed my bus though … :slight_smile:

Late edit:
How “strong” zoom you have @AnnaC? It seam sto me very good one.

And just for the fun of it as we’re speaking about the Moon (Lleuad) before going to work this morning I just played a bit with how bright the moon is. I didn’t have it in position I actually really wanted it to be, but anyway.

This is our terrace and I just played with how bright the reflection from the terrace floor would be. There’s much noise on this picture, but still you can see even that the leaves on kiwi are green despite it’s night (morning) time). The parameters were set to automatic night preset. And the moon? I’ve played with clouds on the sky lit with the moonlight and there were quite spooky sky scenes as if it would be a Helloween already. For the taste of it, here’s one of those. I’ve played with night settings here too. Well it’s quite some noise here too though.

First was shot at approximately 4:45 in the morning while second one was shot at approximately 9:30 at the evening.

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The moon through the early morning mist over the Tweed Valley on Monday.

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Was that enlarged Doug? It actually looks much as the moon does over Argyll usually, whereas on Eclipse day, the moon seemed smaller than that!!!

I carry a pocket camera (Lumix) with me all the time and I did use the zoom to try to get a clearer picture. The moon did actually look bigger than usual anyway. The picture was taken at about 6.20.