I was amazed to see these, as I noticed ours flowering this morning! To @Sionned, I think your wild ones must be native to USA, yes/ no? Our wild are all white and I have only seen white cultivars too. I was surprised ours are in sinc, with John’s because our…
briallu (primroses) in yr ardd wyllt only just came into bloom this week and John had pics ages ago!
Then I realised our ‘tame’ garden is fairly flat, but the wild part is on the steeper section on the hill behind us, which becomes nearly sheer. Our back garden faces south, but, due to the hill, gets no sun at all in winter and a lot less in summer than folk across the canal! The mefys gwyllt are in the sunny section, poor briallu only just got to see some!
p.s. I suspect briallu is one and I’m not sure what a lot are!!!
Yes, that’s definitely it! Diolch yn fawr eich ddau 
Apparently one primrose is - un briallen.
Are those lesser celandine in your photo as well.
Heddiw.
Pryf scorpion - Scorpion fly.
dau gwyn blaen oren - Two orange tips.
This female has attracted a male and they are about to assemble. Note: the female does not have the orange tips that give the species it’s name. (not a good photo they were moving).
Gwyn blaen oren o dan yr adain - under the wing of Orange tip. (click images to enlarge).
Note: this is a female but both sexes have this camouflage pattern on the underside of their wings.
Cheers J.P.
Gwyn blaen oren - Orange Tips in the Till Valley. They seem to like (nettles) Danadl.
Yes. I posted their pic when they first came out (end of April), with no sign of any briallu!! Diolch for briallen!!
Baby robins are very demanding. I haven’t been able to work out how many fledglings we have but they are keeping their (probably) father on his toes providing food. Apparently they are fed for about 3 weeks after fledging so I’m hoping to get some more snaps.
This lonesome youngster ventured out of the cover of the vegetation.
He didn’t have to wait too long for a snack.
This one decided it was best to stay hidden to wait …
Yay! Dad’s back!
Yum yum!
I noticed this draenog (hedgehog) in the garden last night. Fortunately I had a camera with me.
Brilliant pictures!! I’d never get them in the limited time available!!
Nice to see! Never seem to get them here. Had a lot on Gower.
One night, three Cavaliers barking! I rush out to hush them and find them surrounding draenog fawr!! How he/she got through the wire fence into my yard I do not know, but I had to lift him back out. Ouch!!! Ended up with thick oven gloves and still got pricked!! I do not envy those of you who have porcupines!!!
A quickly snatched photo (with apologies for the poor quality) of a heron last Friday next to the Oxford Canal towpath in it’s favourite spot just opposite the old boatyard:
Not good pics, but grabbed by Janet in fleeting moments of availability!
Well clychau’r gog were obviously available, just hard to get close to in our gardd wyllt! Warning, it is said the Spanish ones are invading fast!!
This little chap suddenly landed under our bird table and wagged and wagged too fast to focus!! This is best Janet could get on her phone, Pied wagtail - siglen?
Oh, sorry, should mention siskin - pala gwyrdd next to him/her!
These were on the other side of the canal (Crinan of that ilk) swimming fast!
hwyaden wyllt - mallard
Gair arall ydy sigl-di-gwt
Diolch!
To @ramblingjohn - In the Crinan Canal pic I think it is clear all the mallards are drakes. Is it common to see a row of males all following each other with no female in sight?
Interesting. I have a kids book in the house called sigl di gwt about a sheepdog and I wrongly as it happens have read the title as sigl dy gwt and thought it meant shake your tail/ wag your tail - now I am curious - is the book title a play on words, what does it mean???
@Toffidil you were absolutely right about it meaning wag your tail - I’m not sure why sigl-di-gwt is spelt that way, but it was Twm Elias who told us this is what it meant while I was at Nant Gwrtheyrn a couple of weeks ago
Janet took this with her iphone yesterday!
cochion y berllan? (bullfinches) First this year, I think.
I noticed this too???
siglen fraith - pied wagtail.
Hopefully it means the females are sitting on eggs and the males are feeling pretty unneeded.
Cheers J.P.
We sort of guessed that, but have never before seen a convoy of drakes like that!! It is funny later in the year to see boats having to slow to near stop and wait as a duck shepherds her ducklings along in the middle of the canal!!
Now, hopefully, this is llyn well o clychau’r gog.
We have some of the upright Spanish sort in the cultivated garden and make every effort to stop them spreading. (I’d burn the invaders if it was up to me, but then I’m not a nice person!)
