Dacrymyses stillatus - Jelly spot fungus (drw gen i, dim enw yn yr Cymraeg).
Mae braidd yn cyffredin ar hen pren o coed sydd yn collddail - it is quite common on old wood of deciduous trees.
(click on image for full size, in the middle is a larvae of something i did not notice when taking the photo, that is the camera see’s more than me).
Hendraig has posted a photo of her coedyn derwen - Oak tree, (it maybe like this in a few years).
Titw mawr hyd 14 cm.
Aderyn cyffredin iawn mewn coedwigoedd a gerddi. Mae’n fwy o faint na’r titw tomos las. Mae ganddo batrwm du a gwyn ar yr wyneb a llinell ddu, sy’n lletach ar geiliogod, yn rhedeg o’r gwddf i lawr canol o fron.
Mae’r cefn yn wyrdd, yr adenydd yn ddu a glas a’r bol yn felyn.
Mae’r corff adar ifanc yn llai lliwgar a does dim gwyn ar y pen.
Pryfed yw ei brif fwyd yn yr haf.
Byddan nhw’n nythu mewn twll coeden neu wal.
Mae’r wyau yn wyn gyda smotiau piws-goch. Mae’r fenyw yn deor yr wyau ei phen ei hun. Ar ôl y deor ifanc, maent yn cael eu bwydo gan y ddau riant.
Great tit length 14 cm.
Very common bird in forests and gardens. It is larger than the blue tit. It has a black and white pattern on the face and black line, which is wider in cocks, running from the neck down the center of the breast.
The back is green, the wings are blue and black and the belly is yellow.
The body of young birds are less colorful and there’s no white on the head.
Insects are its main food in the summer.
They will nest in a hole in a tree or wall.
The eggs are white with purplish-red spots. The female incubates the eggs by herself. After the young hatch, they are fed by both parents.
Diolch i ti @ramblingjohn. I have tried to work out for myself what today’s offerings are. I’ve been trying to get a half decent photo of these for days.
I am taking a guess at Clavulina for this one. These are 4 to 5" or so.
I’m really impressed, clavulina rugosa looks a best fit, da iawn iawn.
I may have sounded a bit surprised on the Oxford meetup when i said ‘oh that looks like tripe fungus’
Checked when i got home and yes it was, luckily i think i found some today so will try and post photo’s tomorrow (i didn’t photograph today), there is just so much appearing out of season.
I even saw Lords and Ladies - Pidyn y gog already growing.
Cheers J.P.
Ah, you highlighted my lack of English there (i had to look up Tumescent).
Never know where this learning Welsh will take me next.
I’m certainly enjoying your grammar input elsewhere on the forum,
a subject that leaves me confused at best.
Cheers J.P.
Wow, now i just had a real surprise, promoting ssi without knowing it.
i was looking through a list of 'images for welsh slime mold when i saw one and thought
that looks like my photo, clicked on image and here is screen shot of result.
You will find more of them, I’m sure, because Google’s search engin is working different way then any other engine. it “crawls” into sites and searches everything in them. So … here we are, promoting us with every single publishing here. what I believe is actually good. It only depends of what people are searching for and of course, what metadata and tags forum and site themselves have.
So, now you know the “raw” basics. (but I’m sure you knew this already so who I am to preach technology here)
to @tatjana
He doesn’t think you’re a man, fach, it’s just a naughty South Walian habit to call anyone ‘bach’ !!!
To John, I suspect I will be long gone before our derwen fach is big enough to have a moss that size!
This appears to be plasmodium climbing up the stem of a moss giving some idea of how small these examples are.
This may not be particularly interesting, but it’s a lead into the summer when (if i’m lucky) some really beautiful ones can be found. (and yes these photo’s are low quality).
No, the bark is as collected and the experiment is something of a chance (still fingers crossed considering the time of year). I could end up with some rotten bark and nothing else.
This is just my expansion on what happens in Lab’s where people collect small bark samples and put them in petri dishes.
Me, remove some lose bark from dead Oaks and put in plastic bag to take home, lay them in large sandwich boxes on paper , soak with rain water and stand out of direct sunlight in shadow corner of kitchen.
The idea is there could be plenty of slime molds on the substrate and they will sense change in conditions, it’s probably a bit warmer (though i don’t have central heating), and over time their food supply will run out, they respond by forming fruiting body. i’ve left the lids slightly ajar so they will gradually dry out (another stress).
I chose Oak because i mentioned earlier in this thread ‘what can be found on Oak’ , any other bark would be equally suitable.
Using spores, would be kept in the dark, i’m going away for a few days and not sure when i will get some, but the year is long. dal ati.
Edit: i forgot to add that from what i have read, i’ts not unusual to get fruit bodies appearing within a couple of days, but of course nothing is also an option.
This i’m afraid i where i have to be honest and say i have heard phrases like this since i was a child and wondered why anyone would be long suffering a relationship when they could look out the window and see What’s outside, go and explore etc…
I thought couples should appreciate their differences, even encourage them and i do see a few examples where the mutual trust/belief and respect looks really good (i tip my hat to them for they have something special) This of course may explain why i am single with a little flat that is plenty big enough for me and my clutter.
Titw penddu Hyd 11-12 cm.
Titw bach cyffredin sy’n gallu edrych yn debyg i delor wrth chwilio am fwyd ymysg brigau’r coed.
Mae ganddo ben du a gwyn a darn gwyn amlwg ar y gwegil. Mae’r cefn a’r adenydd yn llwyd a cheir dwy linell wen yn yr adain.
Orenbinc golau yw lliw’r bol â’r fron. Fe’i gwelir mewn coed bythwyrdd a choed collddail a daw at fwrdd adar yn yr ardd dros y gaeaf.
Bydd titw penddu yn nythu mewn pantiau yn y coed neu mewn tyllau llygoden, a gwneud o fwsogl, gwlân, dail marw a gweoedd pry cop '.
Mae’r wyau bach yn wyn gyda smotiau coch-frown.
Mae’r fenyw yn deor yr wyau ei phen ei hun. Ar ôl y deor ifanc, maent yn cael eu bwydo gan y ddau riant.
Coal tit length 11-12 cm.
Small tits common that can look like a warbler when foraging among treetops.
It has a black and white top and white patch on the nape obvious. The back and wings are gray and there are two white lines in the wing.
Orangepinc light is the color of the belly and the breast. It is found in evergreens and deciduous trees and comes to a bird table in the garden over the winter.
Coal Tits will nest in hollows in trees or in mouse holes, and made from moss, wool, dead leaves and spiders’ webs.
The small eggs are white with reddish-brown spots. The female incubates the eggs by herself. After the young hatch, they are fed by both parents.
@henddraig, @ramblingjohn, I can’t but recommend of my favourite books, “The fly trap” by Fredrik Sjoberg (it’s called Malaise’s trap in the original, which is a very well-known trap for capturing insects, but, annoyingly, the publishers decided to change the title for some reason). It’s a autobiography of an entomologist, whose wife has to witness much more than just soaked bark in the shadow corner of the kitchen!
Anyway, I support John here. Most people I know have very peculiar interests but manage to live together happily. I, myself, have been interested for ages in growing a very beautiful mold (one that looks like hundreds of tiny pins). A friend told me that it grows on cottage cheese sprinkled with sugar left in a warm place. Not sure I believe her entirely, but I’m going to try, and I don’t think my family will mind too much:)
After months of wondering, one finally came out. A Spotted Marsh Frog. These are living in my underground stormwater. Quite surprising given the lack of water around generally.
This was last night under my kitchen window, they are roughly 30-40mm.
I will definitely try!
Molds can look really pretty. I once rented a flat and the landlord was strongly against any animals at all so I grew myself a very pretty mold on instant coffee left in a cup. It had very bright colours and looked lovely!
Unfortunately, I had to get rid of it when moving, but I still regret it:(
I misread that as ‘my otter’ at first - had a moment of sheer envy.. well. it could be a ground floor flat by a stream… before I realised my mistake!!
I do take your point!
However - to @stella I would happily live with snakes or other reptiles, amphibians, mammals… but I would have trouble with birds or anything else fluttery and I am not at all good with insects, hopeless with spiders and tend to squirm away from anything smelly. If slime moulds don’t smell, I might be OK.
what I believe is actually good. It only depends of what people are searching for and of course, what metadata and tags forum and site themselves have.
