@ramblingjohn bach, you never cease to amaze me. Da iawn indeed!!
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In another thread, some of us have been discussing why this month is called the end of summer in Cymraeg! I keep seeing the evidence and your autumnal fungi are just the latest examples.
Do you know anything about the number of young drudwy (starling) parents usually raise. We have only seen two adults, but we are starting to see more than four young. I said that I thought we are being used as a creche! Mam a Dad see all our feeders, especially the big fat candle, and drop off the kids here for the day!!
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Mae hyd at naw o wyau - up to nine eggs.
Heddiw, dechrau gwlyb gyda brynhawn heulog. - today, started wet with a sunny afternoon.
Wystrysen y coed - Oyster fungus.
Cnau collen - Hazel nuts.
Pidyn y gog - Cuckoo’s point.
Taglys y perthi - Hedge bindweed.
Some butterflies have two (or more) generations per year and some of those are starting to appear.
Mantell garpiog - Comma.
Trilliw bach - small tortoiseshell. (lliwiog iawn - very colourful).
Cheers J.P.
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One or two photos from an enjoyable week last week in Pen Llŷn
Briweg y cerrig (English stonecrop)
and a few of Nant Gwrtheyrn’s geifr gwyllt for good measure
Hwyl, John
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Here is the thread.
Oh, I didn’t eat those from the forest already for years. We grow Cnau collen in our garden and they’re not ripe yet. About end of July, beginning of August they’d be.
What’s outside in Slovenia right now?
Cymylau rhyfedd yn y bore …
Mellt yn y nos …
Dolydd gwyrdd ar fachlud haul …
Bioden blewog bach …
And some updates on our 3 youngsters …
Just a little more nad they’d fly. When they do we know they will leave soon and that Autumn is slowly creeping into our lands … Here they are, tri choegynnod … . .)
Hwyl!
Tatjana
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Until these, I was suffering hiraeth mawr for Gower, but the only goats we had were tame ones!!
To @tatjana Brilliant storm pictures and the young storks are really doing well!
Tarianbryf - shield bug. (Click on image for full size).
Just an update. i had sent a copy of this image for local knowledgeable persons opinion, i now have the reply that it was further sent on to another person, who then sent it to the Natural history museum, someone there did know its a final instar (last change of shell) sheild bug (not a rarity).
So, very interesting as no one in the chain knew they emerged (heb lliw - without colour).
What will i see in North Wales next week (could be interesting).
Cheers J.P.
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O’r diwedd - dim glaw
from bedroom looking north and a bit west
and:
at the back, the hill which forms our wild garden. There is a road there, but you cannot see it for trees, It’s about at the same level as the phone wire! (Where the bird is that I didn’t know I’d photographed!)
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@ramblingjohn Only 4 days ago, I saw the first bee I’d seen this year!! Now I suspect this was because the nasturtiums had come out! My cerinthes are now out and the bumble bees are buzzing round happily, but oh, so late in the year! I saw one bumble with a white tail and found it mentioned on Google. Are these rare? I don’t see them often, if ever!
Well, I am noway an entomologist - in fact - if it’s possible - the reverse thereof!! I am learning a lot from you!!
Nor am i, but it’s all interesting.
For your (regular) size bumble bee there are three options.
Cacynen gyffredin - Buff tail bumble bee (which looks white to me) .
White tailed bumble bee.
Garden bumble bee.
Cheers J.P.
Most of ours look buff. The one I saw, which I reported to you, was so noticeably different that I looked it up! It really was white!! (Well, its nether regons were!)
I learned something else. I had once seen Cerithe in a catalogue and planted some. I noticed how the bees loved it, so tend to plant it where I want pollinaton. This year wasn’t the same variety and I don’t like it as well, so I looked on Google for varieties and found Cerinthe = Honeywort!
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Heddiw yng Nghymru - Gwybedog Mannog - Spotted Flycatcher yn yr ardd.
I was surprised to see in Llyfr Adar Iolo Williams that the Spotted Flycatcher is a Gwybedog Mannog & the Pied Flycatcher is a Gwybedog Brith. In the details it says that alternative names are Gwybedwr Brith for the Spotted & Gwybedwr Du a Gwyn for the Pied. These alternatives make much more sense to me!
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I have only seen one of those once (on Exmoor), so if you get a photo of one i won’t be jealous honest, i must say you seem to have a magnificent garden. enjoy.
The weather is still dull for July. so not a lot today - heddiw.
Scleroderma citrinum and Boletus parasiticus.
The Boletus parasiticus have grown well in the past week and now show clearly the poreoid under surface.
Gweirloyn y perthi - Gatekeeper. ( well camouflaged - cuddlliw dda).
Cheers J.P.
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I saw a couple in the woodland above PTyB. I’ve not had much chance to explore much further afield than yr ardd here yet.
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Heddiw, oedd 'na haulwen a dw i’n cael syndod iawn - Today there was sunshine and i got a nice surprise.
Gwyach fawr gopog - Great crested grebe.
Ddau Gwibiwr bach gyda’i gilydd - Two small skippers together.
Rhesen lydan dywyll - Shaded broadbar.
Helyglys per - Great willowherb.
Britheg werdd - Dark green fritillary (this was the surprise, as i don’t remember seeing one of these in this area before (therefore it has been sent for a second opinion)).
Cheers J.P.
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Wow, great!
And the bird …
I’ve caught those two quite some days ago but I’ve noticed them only now going through the pictures again.
Swallow = gwennol
And some strange clouds this morning …
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Janet saw 9 on our bird table/feeders this morning. A neighbour has seen a flock of about 20, so drudwy have found mid-Argyll - or rather re-found as another neighbour, aged about 70, remembers seeing them when she was ‘wee’!! If we get to see 20, or even 10, I may get a picture!
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Wow, Tatjana, that cloud formation is impressive! I don’t think I have ever seen anything like that!
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Yes, I find it impressive too especially as there sun shines behind it what gives special effect to the whole thing.
It’s once in quite some years. I remember I’ve caught approximately the same one in 2005 or 2006 and I didn’t see any of such until today.
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Heddiw, oedd y tywydd yn wella - Today, the weather was better.
Gwydd Aifft - Egyption goose.
Tafod yr hydd - Heartstongue.
Gwennol ddu, uwch ben pentre bach lle mae fy mam yn bwy - Swifts above the village where my mother lives.
Lindys o gwyf teigr y benfelen - Caterpillars of the Cinnabar moth.
@tatjana may meet some singing ducks in Wales.
Cheers J.P.
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