I like your style sir:wink:
Today a deer that decided to not runaway but stand and stare.
Roe deer - Iwrch (cymraeg).
No red nose !!!
Cheers J.P.
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Nuthatch - Delor y cnau.
Not the best of photo’s but it does show nicely it’s feet/claw structure that allow this species
to climb up/down and around trees.
Cheers J.P.
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Foxglove - Bysedd y cwn (should be a to bach over the (w)).
A sign of flowers to come, this plant is one of many using the biennial strategy where bye
it spent last year developing a strong root and leaf system which can this year put their
energy into producing a large stem of flowers.
The welsh name includes some different plurals.
Bys/edd - finger/s.
ci/cwn - dog/ dogs. (maybe i will remember that now).
Eilflwyddiad - biennial (um, might need some time to remember that one).
Cheers J.P.
Scarlet elf cup - Sarcoscypha austriaca - Latin name.
I don’t have a name in welsh for this species.
google translate = Cwpan elf ysgarlad.
Anyway , they are starting to appear in places where old wood has been lying in wet places over
the last year.
Cheers J.P.
Thistle - Ysgallen. Suspect it’s the spear thistle - Marchysgallen, but would like to see it at flowering time to be sure. Anyway it carries on the theme of flowers to come.
The photo includes toe of my size 11 boot to illustrate size.
A closer shot to illustrate just how well this has evolved it’s leaf structure to occupy available space as efficiently as possible.
Another species that is generally biennial - Eilflwyddiad.
Cheers J.P.
Badhamia utricularis - Latin
The slime mold i posted a few days ago has ripened like tiny bunches of grapes.
Cheers J.P.
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Wow! What a difference when you compare the two pictures! Thanks John
Thank’s Ali, hope you are still enjoying the outdoors.
Hwyaden lwyd (Gwrywaidd) - Gadwall (male).
Hwyaden lwyd (benywaidd) - Gadwall (female).
Cheers J.P.
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Buwch a Llo - Cow and Calf.
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Llwyd y gwrych - Dunnock.
Cnocell fraith fwyaf - Great spotted woodpecker.
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Defaid, - sheep.
Mamog - Ewe.
Oen - lamb.
Cribau’r pannwr - Teasel.
Cheers J.P.
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Llygoden bengron - vole
Again no camera to hand - dammit, but in digging over some leafy cuttings yesterday, I disturbed a beautiful but very surprised field vole (grey-brown & short tail). Here’s a link to someone else’s (Barrie Kelly’s) picture: http://www.barriekelly.com/p429371199/h5FEB6F0#h5feb6f0
Ah, not having the camera to hand, (happens all to often).
Merlyn/Merlod - Pony/Ponies.
Byssonectria fusispora- Latin (no English or Welsh name).
Finger for scale.
Not the best macro i have taken but gives some idea of shape.
Cheers J.P.
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Thank you for that link. I was fairly sure the little creature(s) living under our greenhouse is/are vole(s) and now I’m certain!! I’ve never seen more than one at a time, but they can’t live long can they, and we seem to have been seeing that one for years!! from Jackie
Gwydd ddu - Brent goose.
Hwyaden lygad aur (gwrywaidd) - Goldeneye (male).
Cheers J.P.
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For anyone who is interested, a series started on SC4 last night with Iolo williams narrating a wildlife program on survival in the arctic circle, by pure coincidence the golden eye duck ( hwyaden lygad aur) features.
http://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=518417283
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Aderyn y to (gwrywaidd) - House sparrow (male).
Cheers J.P.
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Diolch yn fawr John!
CADNO neu LLWYNOG
I knew cadno = fox. Then I heard about this other thing bothering chickens, so I actually looked in a dictionary and found : fox = cadno, llwynog, canddo. On looking up ‘vixen’, I found llwynoges given preference over cadnoes. I am bemused. Is this de/gog? If anyone can tell me what red furry animals that terrorise chickens are called in their part of Cymru, I’d be grateful!! Do you use both words? from Jackie
I also notice, depending on which dictionary you consult, “cadno” has an impressive number of plural forms! 
(“llwynog” seems a bit more restrained, and makes do with just the one
(llwynogod) )