At Nant Gwrtheyrn this week, on course ‘Natur yn Y Nant’ - yesterday we did some foraging (fforio) in hedgerows with the aim of cooking the results (bringing ‘What’s outside’ inside!) and unexpectedly Gerallt Penallt and crew from S4C’s Heno turned up to film - you can see the results here (at least, if you’re in the UK you can), 3 minutes from the start of the programme: http://www.s4c.cymru/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=533352313
(Everyone survived soup, salad and biscuits, by the way, with no ill effects)
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Looks blasus iawn! Never knew you could eat blodau’r eithin. Might go out for a snack myself later! Good to see you enjoying a glass of grape juice with it JW.
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Lovely blossom! Our cultivated Victoria plum has just come into flower. Difficult to get pics because my little dog has just had a major operation on her leg and needs to be watched/cosetted. Now I just hope we get dim eira arall, dim rhew arall a dim ond ychydig glaw!
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Apparently, we live in the same rhythm:) Our trees have just come into bloom, which gives me an opportunity to take thousands of more or less identical pictures of them:)
All the best to your little dog!
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Diolch yn fawr, from Toffi and me!
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sorry, i have been rather busy and Welsh has been getting neglected .
Last night was a late one with moth traps, and some specimens were kept for photos this morning.
Gwyfyn arian y drain - Chinese character (a remarkable little moth, i put the second image to give a sense of scale).
Taking photos of moths on an old tree trunk shows just how good their camouflage is.
Brychan cochwyrdd - Red green carpet.
Pwtyn brych - Brindled beauty.
Whereas a contrasting background shows their beauty.
Rhisglyn minfylchog - Engrailed.
Brychan dwr - Water carpet.
And summer plants.
Rhedyn ungoes dechrau ymddangos/tyfu - Bracken starting to appear/grow.
Cheers J.P.
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Nothing exotic in the Tweed Valley this week Ji-Binc (Chaffinch), Bras Melyn (Yellowhammer) and some Brogaod (frogs) by the side of the garden pond. I have just bought a copy of Llyfr Adar gan Iolo Williams which is a real help. … Mae’n helpu fy go iawn???
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Some photos taken this week on the cwrs Natur yn Y Nant at Nant Gwrtheyrn identified during a walk down to the traeth with Twm Elias:
Rhedyn persil (Parsley fern) Suran y coed (Wood sorrel) Botwm crys (Greater stitchwort) Gwallt y forwyn (Maidenhair spleenwort) - I’m not sure what plant the arrow-shaped leaves belong to -Twm wasn’t around to help identification when I took this
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A couple more photos
Unidentified (by me, anyway - @ramblingjohn neu @pippapritchard ? ) cen (lichen) - photo taken dydd Sadwrn diwetha yn agos at Maen Esgob hill near Conwy during our penwythnos Plas Tan Y Bwlch On the quarry “scree” slopes at Nant Gwrtheyrn - unidentified again by me - sea kale perhaps?? Maybe the malwoden knows…
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Possibly, Llygad Ebrill - Lesser celandine.
Possibly, Cen pen matsien - Cladonia floerkeana.
Cheers J.P.
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Yes, now I think about it (always a good idea!) it does indeed look very much like Llygid Ebrill
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She does:)
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Inspired by @johnwilliams_6 photo i need to learn more plants.
Botwm crys - Greater stitchwort.
and
Wy gornchwiglen - Lapwing egg (the other side is missing, ie an empty shell).
Cheers J.P.
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This is a treat for me too; I only see a handful each year in Oxfordshire.
Another seldom seen bird here is the llinos - linnet but we’ve had a pair checking out our garden this weekend.
& this is to encourage anybody who despairs of dandelions on their lawn; the nico (goldfinch) love dant y llew seeds.
This iwrch (roe deer) was distant, but seemed more bothered by me than the pheasants.
And finally, I was very surprised to see this ffwng today. It’s May (mis Mai)???
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A couple of surprise first-time visitors to my small garden - it’s fairly enclosed and there can’t have been much room for them to spread their wings and take off again, but take off they must have done as they’ve certainly gone
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Many thanks for all the contributions, they make a day in the world more colourfull.
Heddiw - Today.
Gwibiwr llwyd - Dingy skipper.
Adela reaumurella - Green longhorn moth. (i have put the Latin name as this is the second time my complete book of welsh lepidoptera has proved incomplete, or these do not appear in Wales).
Gleslyn y coed - Bugle.
Neidr ddefaid - slow worm (i could not resist photographing this one because of it’s posture).
another lucky day.
(click images for full size).
Cheers J.P.
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Is it trying for the logo of the Royal College of Physicians?
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The last few days have been somewhat unremarkable on the ‘what’s outside’ front for me but today it was my turn to get very lucky.
Tylluan Frech - Tawny Owl. Yn clwydo (roosting).
Diolch o galon i ti Tylluan Frech.
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I just knew that shape reminded me of something i had seen somewhere (diolch y fawr iawn iawn).
I’m not jealous (honest) bendygedig .
Heddiw, dw i wedi bod yn lwcus i gweithio yn ardd diddorol.
Buwch goch 7 smotyn - 7 spot ladybird.
Gradually getting more interesting (for me) and difficult to ID.
I don’t have a Welsh name for these but they are Hairy footed flower bees, which roughly translates to Traed blewog gwenyn blodau.
The top two are females (benywaidd) while the lower two are males (gwrywaidd).
Now for something i have labled as uncertain, as i am uncertain as to just what they are (other than interesting), but i think somewhere (as evidenced by the images) in the digger wasp family.
The field digger wasp is ‘Picwnen dyllu’r maes’ yn cymraeg (but i’m not certain, and notice the colour band variation on the thorax, maybe gender difference or species difference).
Cheers J.P.
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