I want to see a grown up little dragon!!! Please try to get pictures!! I had never heard of them!!
also:
to your storks!! Looking forward to their pictures too!!
p.s. I assure you, dragons and any size and stork chicks are a lot more interesting than the likelyhood of baby oak trees getting galls!!
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Here it is @henddraig - “The Human fish” (little dragon) 
I actually don’t know where they find the similarity to dragons at all but if they say so then they are.
Let’s say they’re “dragons Slovenian way”
Oh, I can see the “dragonish” quality of that - and also sort of the “humanish” quality. It seems more dragon than human to me. Thanks!
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Aran y gwalch y pysgod
I was pleased to learn from BBC’s Springwatch that one of the Ospreys at Glaslyn has been named after our Aran. This seemed to me to be very appropriate and I’ve been trying to list all the reasons why. Is it because -
- once he gets his talons into something, he never lets go?
- he is incredibly rare?
- he is strikingly handsome?
- he is a fearsome top predator?
- any other suggestions?
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I love them all.
Oh, how lovely… 
To my personal knowledge, there are fewer of me than of gweilch y pysgod, so it must be the rarity factor…
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For some reason, I couldn’t get back to the forum from the dragon!! Never mind, logged in again now! The little dragon is clearly adapted to living always in the dark and looks so vulnerable, not at all fierce. Its head is certainly that of a dragon! I agree with @seren!
I cannot see @aran as a predator! He is too helpful. He is an excellent parent, that seems to be a characteristic of raptors. the Golden Eagle on Springwatch is the one I like!!
I wish I knew where ours nest!! (Probably next door!!)
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Predator in a cute way.
I like this one too.
Yes.
About proteus in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm. Enjoy reading.
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I know nothing about fungi but thought ramblingjohn might be interested in this which I spotted on an oak tree (derwen) this afternoon.
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dwi’n cytuno efoch di i bod siwr.
I believe there is a group of islands named after him as well (quite an achievement).
da iawn i ti, dwi wedi bod yn chwilio am fwng hyn (a un arall) dros mis diwetha - well done to you, i have been looking for this fungus (and one other) over the past month.
dwi wedi methi tan wythnos hon pan on i’n gweld un ar coed ar roundabout i mewn canol o Newbury - i had failed till this week when i saw one on a tree on a roundabout in the middle of Newbury (as usual excuse my Welsh).
It is chicken of the woods Laetiporus sulphureus, (sorry no Welsh name) thanks again for everyone’s input.
Marblen goed - Marble gall. (this is one of many groups i looked at today).
(i have not managed to meet with others to get their opinion on these yet), anyway, what i find is that i can see these quite easily in sometimes large groups on little oak trees that have been like in the image above grazed by some animal (probably deer - cerw), i don’t know it its the small young trees or the damage from grazing that attracts the gall flies, it’s yet another example of where a simple (good) question actually leads to more questions than answers and needs lot of people looking in their area to see how it is in many locations.
Gwlithen rwyllog braidd yn mawr ar wal - a rather large netted slug on a wall.
Rhosyn gwyllt - dog rose.
Mae’r Tegeirian brych yn dechrau blodauo - the common spotted orchids start flowering.
Chwimwyfyn cyffredin - common swift.
Cheers J.P.
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I believe there is a group of islands named after him as well (quite an achievement).
Not to mention a sweater. Off topic?? Well, you can wear them “outside” 
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Diolch John! I have seen deer (well, carw ifanc iawn) in our wild garden and I’d not be surprised if grown-ups get in sometimes, so it’s worth keeping an eye on our derwen bach!
To @tatjana Diolch for the link. I thought all salamanders had external gills and the article implies not. Actually, now I think about it, they are not obvious on your baby dragons!
I love the idea of them being washed out of their caves and people pointing and saying, “Look! Baby dragons!”
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Continuing on “little dragons” and storks:
- one more of those little dragons hatched the egg yesterday and very soon it might be one or two more so there will be (hopefully) 3 in total until now, but still about 20 eggs to go …
- Our storks pair has 3 little babies. They show heads out of nest now and then but I still am not able to make a decent photo so no photos for now.
Let’s see what comes next on both sides of the births.
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Banadl - Broom.
Adain sidan - Lacewing s.p.
Troed yr iar - Common birds foot trefoil.
Hirgorn melynresog - yellow barred long horn.
Cheers J.P.
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Mae brogaod ar lan y pwll y bore’ma.
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[quote=“henddraig, post:1581, topic:971”]
@aran, @Iestyn Is it frog = broga, frogs = brogaod or frog = brogaod, frogs = broga or ???
[/quote]According to my dictionary the plural is brogaod, but I’ve a feeling I should have written “Maen brogaod …” Please always correct my attempts at Welsh.
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a fi hefyd.
Rhaid i mi dweud, oedd dydd yn dda iawn heddiw. ( i must say , it was a very good day today).
diolch am haulwen - thanks for sunshine.
Chwilen bicwn - wasp beetle.
Brithribin gwyrdd ar Meillionen goch - Green hairstreak on red clover.
Chwilen ysgarlad - Cardinal beetle s.p.
Siobyn gwelw - Pale tussock. (there are both male and female on the grass stem assembled to exchange DNA, female upper (larger) with head upwards, male below with head downwards).
To their right (audience) a Chwilen goesdew - swollen thighed beetle. This was certainly an unusual bit of luck.
Glesyn cyffredin (benywaidd) - common blue (female),
Teigr y benfelen - The cinnabar.
Cragen felen - yellow shell.
(click on images for full size).
Cheers J.P.
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Ydy! If you had, I would have happily learned ‘brogaod’ as the plural and moved on. As it was, I consulted various sources on my ipad and got confusing answers!! Because of this, I will never forget brogaod, whereas if you;d put ‘maen’, I suspect the information would have popped into my brain and not lingered! So… Diolch yn fawr!!! 
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