I wish I could say, “Croeso yn ol!” but I’m not there! Where in yr hen 'wlad are you? You’ll need to get @Sionned to alter the map!!
.p.s. Is it a pipistrelle? It doesn’t seem to have long ears or a horse-show nose! Bat = ystlum, pipistrelle seems to be ystlum lleiaf which is ‘lesser bat’, i.e. smallest. I know there are now seen to be 2 kinds of pipistrelles, but I don’t know how to tell which yours is!!
NB I’m sure you know ALL bats are protected species and not to be disturbed. I’d guess its OK to free him/her from under your sink, but your attic/loft will be theirs for ever!!
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I’d forgotten about the map! We are in Sir Fynwy. I figured liberating the bat was allowable & more than happy to share the place with the others.
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[quote=“pippapritchard, post:1606, topic:971”]
We are in Sir Fynwy.[/quote]
Sir Fynwy is rather large. Are you in Trefynwy (Monmouth) or another part of Monmouthshire? Or should I just stick your pin somewhere in the middle of the place? 
There are two ways to do this.
the first involves a magnifying glass and their breeding appendages (one species has nodules !!!).
The second way is the way it was noticed there are two species.
Bat detectors receive their high frequency calls and play them back a couple of octaves lower (a range in which we can hear them).
some one a few years ago noticed they were recording/hearing two distinctly different call arrangements from apparently the same species (pipistrell).
This led to closer inspection of the bats and it became known there are two species.
I have seen people with modern bat detectors that are now so clever they have markings indicating which species is being detected (frequency range and form of the calls).
Here i must admit to having no experience at using these and know little about bats other than i would like the opportunity to know more, i know of some roosting places in the local woods but am well shy of disturbing them.
Heddiw - today.
Gwiberlys - vipers buglos.
Llyffant y gwair cyffredin - common leafhopper.
Gwiddonyn llychlyd - Nettle weevil.
As yet i have not got a species name for this, but post it as a curio, wondering how the water droplets affect their compound eyes. (Edit: looks like Volucella inflata).
Criciedyn hirgorn tywyll- dark bush cricket.
Cheers J.P.
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Sorry, I was going to post on the map thread. I’m at NP7 8LR. Diolch i ti.
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Poor thing! Much worse than steamed-up glasses, I bet!!!
Diolch about the bats. I am glad it isn’t an easy thing to spot, that explains why it was so many centuries before anyone noticed… well, we had to invent bat-sound adjusters first!! We have some flying about catching…bliss…joy…catch more, bach!!'…MIDGES…in the evenings, but I don’t know where they roost! They would be very, very welcome in our loft!
p.s. Of course the differences in pipistrelles may have evolved recently for some excellent reason only they know!!!
edit:
Yesterday, these came out enough to be spectacular,
heddiw:
Yn yr ardd wyllt wrth y pwll bach! Iris in both languages, I think. I do not know the plural in Cymraeg!
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Iolo’s book gives : Gellesgen - yellow iris.
Dw i’n tybio bod ni’n defnydd iris yn’r cymraeg pan dan ni’n siarad amdan yr lygaid.
(excuse my welsh, dw i’n dal i dysgu).
from the weekend
Puper y fagwyr - Biting stonecrop.
Chwilen goesdew benywaidd ar blodyn melyn - female swollen thighed beetle on buttercup
(the female does not have swollen thighs).
Cheers J.P.
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Blodau gwyddfid - Honeysuckle flowers.
Criciedyn hirgorn brith ifanc - young speckled bush cricket.
(second image to get in complete antennae). (as usual click on image for full size).
Cheers J.P.
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I learn so much from you! I’ve never noticed crickets! Just heard them!!
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Tegeirian y wenynen - Bee orchid.
Gwalch-wyfyn llygeidiog - Eyed hawk-moth.
Emrallt blotiog - Blotched emerald.
Gwyfyn gwenyn - Bee moth (so named because their young feed on the honeycomb and detritus within bee and wasp nests).
Gem pres gloyw - Burnished brass.
Gwyn rhesog - Common white wave.
Rhisglyn brych - Mottled beauty.
Ermin gwyn - White ermine.
Mursen gynffon Las ar dail o danadl poethion - Blue tailed damselfly on leaf of common nettle.
Cheers J.P.
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A magnificent update on our “little dragons” in Postojna cave. There are already 13 in total which hatched their eggs what means a record number of “dragons” ever born in the aquarium but there are still 10 more eggs to be hatched and biologists didn’t put much hope even in those 13 already born before everything started but now … we might have ALL 23 little dragons in total.
Well, from the birth until they can be really released from the tank to the natural environment there’s still long way to go, they say, as they’d have to provide really suitable environment for them so that they wouldn’t seek home somewhere else but in the “domastic area” of Postojna Cave. Fingers crossed they’d like their home and stay there for ages.
Unfortunately there’s no pictures since I’m not one of the researchers but only can read the news as all the rest of the world. 
But I’m happy anyway.
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heddiw - today.
Y bengalad - common knapweed.
Ton tri smotyn - Treble brown spot.
Tegeirian bera - Pyramid orchid.
Pys llygod - tufted vetch.
Picas robin - Robin’s pincushion.
Larva buwch goch - Ladybird larvae.
Elinog - woody nightshade.
Ddau musrenod las gyffredin (gwrywaidd a benywaidd) gyda i gilydd) - two common blue damsleflies (male and female) together.
Cheers J.P.
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http://old.saysomethingin.com/welsh/images/smilies/ssiwllongydragon.gif
To Mama ddraig!!
after John’s pics, I’m rather embarrassed to send this one, but I like reptiles, so madfall - lizard. (I don’t even know which kind! 
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On a trip to Sussex 10 days ago I came across this orchid in a (planned) wild flower meadow
… unfortunately, afterwards I forgot to reset the camera from it’s macro setting so I couldn’t focus properly in time on the albino squirrel I saw later the same day…
Despite looking like a white cat in the photo it was definitely a squirrel! And, with its pink eyes, definitely an albino one - the first time I’ve ever seen one (and probably the last!)
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In Cymru a few days after the Sussex trip there was this magnificent ffwng on a sycamore(?) by St Garmon’s Church, Llanarmon DC
Back in the 1920s it seems that this delightful valley had the same fate lined up for it as Tryweryn a few decades later, with Warrington as the villain this time rather than Liverpool, but thankfully on this earlier occasion there was too much opposition (including from Lloyd George)
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Ah, lovely! I’ve stayed in Llanarmon DC; such a nice village in a nice out-of-the-way place, but not that far from other things. Thanks!
E2A - here’s my photo taken - oh my! - nearly two decades ago!
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dy fwng di - your fungus is
Cyfrwy cennog - Dryad’s saddle (i have yet to see one this year).
Cheers J.P.
Diolch, JP!
I have realised that the madfall - lizard I posted is a common lizard.
To @johnwilliams_6 Am I right that only grey squirrels have albino offspring and that red squirrels can have black ones??? Or is it the other way around? Or can both have both??? @ramblingjohn???
At a guess, I’d say that both could have albino offspring although I don’t really know - but, yes,@ramblingjohn will probably have some useful thoughts on this