No problem. It’s a nice photo.
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I wonder if it glows under a black light
[/quote] Love it!
Cwl- both the cocwn and the timing!
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poppy-pabi
Not a good picture but you can make out the mother in the nest - WIlly Wagtail.
Not known for loitering to allow good pictures, but I shall persevere. Took all day to catch mummy in the nest as it was.
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The little Willie wagtail is so cute! We have them around my area too - they like to attack the trains, for some reason! I can’t say I’ve ever gotten a photo, though.
I love listening to them too. I will sit outside in the mornings with a smoke n coffee and just listen to them and the Maggies singing. I haven’t seen them attack the train - behind my house is the Adelaide to Darwin & Perth main freight line so we get a few - but yes they are meant to be somewhat territorial.
They have such a pretty song, I agree. There are a nesting pair that live near my train station, and between them and the mud larks, the train gets dive bombed quite a lot!
Thanks folks, certainly a lot of interesting creaduriaid - creatures appearing on here.
Work today so no new photo’s, but i did receive an email about a photo i posted last week.
Gwyfyn Rhesen wen y rhedyn - Brown silver line moth.
In the post i said i was uncertain about my identification as this moth should appear May to June, so was well out of usual time frame.
Well, it’s been accepted as an unusual occurrence and will be recorded as such to the national database.
Often wrong, sometimes right and this was the result of to wet to work day, sometimes i feel a little lucky. (keep looking and clicking folks, you just never know what may appear tomorrow).
Cheers J.P.
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And I have been meaning to say how impressed I am by some of the fungi you’ve photographed. How big are they? We have a suitable environment near hear and I never seem to have seen so many different kinds. How big is that star and the porcelain ones?
You are in an excellent environment for fungi, it’s like so many things just wander looking around in a casual manner and sooner or later your eye will click in and you will see more fungi than you imagined. There are of course blank times when my adage is if this environment had none move to a different environment (sometimes 50 mtrs is ample). As for size this is a big problem as photo’s can give the wrong impression, so i must try to remember to illustrate size when it’s important.
Seren ddaear gyffredin - common earth star with my finger for scale.
Ysgwydd amryliw - Many zoned polypore.
Last night was probably the last of this year with expert moth people, rather chilly in the woods till 11pm but a few species were to be seen (some photo’s in the night but most this morning when day light appeared).
Brychan tachwedd - November moth.
Brychan cochwyrdd - Red-green carpet.
Gwiddonyn y gollen - Hazel weevil (tiny meddwl am 5mm).
Much more to come.
Cheers J.P.
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Brychan sbriws - Spruce carpet.
Carpiog pluog - feathered thorn.
Melyn rhesog - Barred sallow.
Melyn pengoch - Pink barred sallow.
Gwyfyn lloeren - satellite.
After photographing moths in the poor light of an overcast sky i walked back past the wildlife teams buildings and noticed that bird food has started being put out, a sign that winter is nearing.
Nico - Goldfinch ( i found out today that a group of goldfinch’s is know as a Charm, made me wonder about group names for wildlife in Welsh, that’s something for the future, so much to learn).
Cheers J.P.
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That is a goal of mine too!! Thanks a lot for the size guide, but my lungs mean I can’t really get to the best spots now. It did explain why I likely might have missed the stars!! I am sorry for the November moth! I was trying to get a good pic of the thick frost on our grass y bore’ma, but just proved I need to improve my manual dexterity!! However, here there is thick frost 'till well after 10.00 am…pity any poor moths!!
p.s. any idea of group name for chaffinches or bullfinches??
I’ve wondered about this too. In English, many animals have names for male/female/young/group. e.g. bull/cow/calf/herd. I haven’t found any source for this type of info in Welsh.
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Ah, frost photo’s, now there is a challenge, (dal ati), success will come to you.
So much to learn, will post anything i come across on this subject.
Alarch ddof ifanc - young mute swan.
Gwyach fawr gopiog - Great crested grebe.
Gwylan gefnddu leiaf - Lesser black-backed gull.
Gwylan gefnddu leiaf ifanc - Young lesser black backed gull (as usual click on images for full size).
I heard this week of snow in Hungary so reports are of winter migrants arriving, so plenty to look out for when i get time.
Cheers J.P.
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@craigf
male/female/young/group.
from Y Sioe and Y Geiriadur Mawr - mare - caseg, stallion - march, foal (m) - ebol, filly - eboles, from S4C am plant!! - bull tarw, cow - buwch, calf - llo. from Geiriadur - cattle - gwartheg. I have words for the rest of the farm animals, I think, also lots of butterflies, but not group words, apart from gwartheg,
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Copyn alert:
Seren ddaear gyffredin - Common earth star. I couldn’t resit another photo of these, this time of some original fruit bodies just starting to open (this is the first time i have been able to see all phases of development at the same time).
Copyn s.p. - spider species. This looks like a young of a daddy long legs type spider but i could be wrong.
Geoglossum s.p. no welsh name as yet. look for these anywhere the grass is short enough to see them.
Eiddew neu Iorwg - ivy flower head (though to be correct this is a group of flower heads called an ‘Umbel’, just illustrates the great complexity of what is a short lived part of the plant.
Cap inc bach iawn - very small ink cap (with my finger for scale these delicate little ink caps (often referred to as pleated) have to photographed early as by mid afternoon they have decayed.
Aeron o elinog - berries of woody nightshade.
(click on images for full size).
Cheers J.P.
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haid o wenyn/ swarm of bees is the only one I know of.
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oo, dips into Geiriadur mawr.
Haid - swarm or flock.
Haig - shoal.
Byddwn ni’n defnyddio’r rhain ar crwydro nesaf - Will we use these on the next ramble.
Cheers J.P.
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Thank you so much for remembering to scale things!! The ink cap is lovely and so are the stars. I was truly grateful for the copyn alert and, interestingly, the shudder started as first legs appeared and vanished as I saw it had quite a little body and wasn’t hairy!! It is clearly the leading legs and then big hairy bodies that get to me!!!
Rywbeth dipyn wahanol heddiw - something a little different toady.
Nyth o picwnen papur - nest of paper wasp.
Dw i’n credu fod rhywbeth fel dau deg dau (dwy ugain) rhywogaeth o’r rhain.
I believe there is something like twenty two species of these.
The photo was taken by a friends phone as i had not taken my camera.
Cheers J.P.
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I actually looked for a toad, before realising what you had put in Cymraeg!!! (Sorry for teasing!! 
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