Mae´n bwrw glaw heddi’ trwy´r dydd i gyd. Felly, llawer o´r rheina am dro …
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Mae’r cyntaf, yn edrych fel Malwen wefus frown - the first looks like Brown-lipped snail.
(Mae’r tywydd yn glaw yma hefyd).
nice photo.
Cheers J.P.
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Diolch. Ond rhaid i fi cyfaddef, mae´n ¨one I prepared earlier¨ — rhy wlyb dros ben heddiw am ffotos yn yr ardd.
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Niwl Llorfudol - advection fog - yng Ngwm Nedd bore Iau tua saith o’r gloch.
Mae’n digwydd pan mae’r awyr dwym a wlyb yn pasio dros yr awyr oerach uwch ben yr afonydd.
Pob afon yn afon o niwl… pert iawn.
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(Roedd rhaid i fi cwhilio am ‘advection fog’ ar y porth termau! )
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Mae’n ddrwg gen i, ond dwi ddim yn siwr beth the English means, never mind the Cymraeg!! I can see it is very beautiful from above, I have seen it before on rising above clouds, in fact I’ve seen what I think was it when pony trekking in the hills beside Loch Ness when on holiday in the 60s! We began in thick fog and rose. Eventually, our heads reached above the clouds and, for a while, our mounts were still invisible below!! Weird! I thought it was called an ‘inversion’. I guess that’s the meteorological condition that causes the advection fog? Yes/No?
Now, to all:- I already sent one bad pic of our ‘dwarf’ nasturtium, but Janet got a much better one last night. Unfortunately, it looked much better on her ipad than it does on my lap-top, so all I can do is hope it looks OK to you:-
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Advection fog happens when warm (comparatively), moist air is cooled from below. e.g. by passing over water - in this case the Neath and Tawe rivers. Sea fog is a form of advection fog.
Different from radiation fog (niwl pelydriad) which is caused by the ground itself cooling and usually clears quicker (if the sun gets on it anyway).
Normally air is cooler the higher you go (and at a semi-predictable rate.) When the pattern is reversed, that’s an inversion (gwrthdroad). You can have inversions a few feet or few hundred feet up - as when you get advection/radiation fog or mist, or a few thousand feet up - Sometimes y get cool cloud formstions then, round here you normally you get a scummy cloud layer and rubbish visibilty and turbulence as you pass through it. It’s often pretty from above, all silvery in the distance like a second horizon. Low level or or pasing through it isn’t fun though.
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Oh why oh why is Wales so distant on the train, i would love to have been up there with you.
(new batteries in the camera of course) thanks very much for posting.
Cheers J.P.
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Some flying days I just feel like scooping the whole country up in my arms to give her a cwtch! Soooo lovely.
And different every time.
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Know that feeling.
Heddiw - Today.
Coed derwen - Oak tree.
Aeron Celynnen yn datblygu - Holly berries developing.
Sioncyn gwyrdd cyffredfin gwrywaidd - Male common green grasshopper.
(the beauty of modern cameras, what i would have never seen in the field is this has only one antenna (another unicorn ! )).
Picwnen goch sydd yn chwilio am paill o Iorwg - Hornet which is searching for ivy pollen.
Copor bach ar dail o Rhedyn ungoes - Small copper on leaf of bracken.
Cheers J.P.
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Don’t give your camera all the credit, John! I am absolutely certain that in my impatient, shaking hands it would not give results like this!
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Heddiw - today.
Rhywogaeth o tarianbryf - Species of shield bug (a dock leaf bug for which i don’t have a complete welsh name).
Hopys - hops.
Brychan cleisiog - common marbled carpet.
Cacynen bach iawn - very small bees.
These caught my eye and i had a great time watching them working, they are some species of digger bees which is not much help but i’m afraid is the extent of my knowledge. Really needs to be viewed full screen to see how small the bees are compared with my finger.
Cheers J.P.
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Bonet tylwyth teg - fairies bonnets.
gwyfyn siobyn cocoon - cocoon of vapourer moth. (another is still growing in the box).
Picellwr cyffredin gwrywaidd - Male common darter.
Picellwr cyffredin sy’n dodwy wyau - common darters which are egg laying.
Cheers J.P.
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oedd y dydd anaferol iawn - it was a very unusual day.
fi oedd yn chwilfrydig iawn pan wnes i welodd danadl poethion a oedd yn crynu.
pan on i’n troi y ddeilen dros fi dod o hyd i chwilerod glöynnod byw a oedd yn ysgwyd i atal ichneumon sydd yn drio dodwy wyau ar neu mewn chwilerod. -
i was very curious when i saw a stinging nettle which was shaking.
when i turned the leaf over i found a butterfly pupae which was shaking to stop a ichneumon which was trying to egg lay on or in the pupae.
Best full screen.
Mantell goch sydd yn yfed neithdar iwrog - Red admiral which is drinking ivy nectar.
wnes i cymerodd y cartref pupau gyda fi, ac mae’n edrych yn debyg i mantell goch - I took the pupae home and it looks like a red admiral.
Cheers J.P.
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Canal barge turning round at Hawkesbury Junction (near Coventry) earlier today. Barges were making 180˚ turns to get from the Coventry Canal onto the Oxford Canal, this one went smoothly but the previous one kept bumping into the side and onlookers on another barge were having to shout “reverse NOW, reverse NOW!” as they seemed to be speeding straight for the bank
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Copyn alert:
Alaw - White water lily.
Copyn y goes gyda saith coesau - Garden spider with seven legs.
Cheers J.P.
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Mae lot o rhain yn y hangar ar hyn o bryd!
That little movie was the most incredible thng I have ever seen, much better than any Iolo or Attenborough programme!
Diolch yn fawr for all I am learning from you, of which Cymraeg is almost incidental!
p.s. The lili dlos in the second batch of pics looks pink on my screen. Is that my laptop’s fault? Oh, and the poor copyn is so pretty, he/she isn’t at all scary…maybe it’s because of being seven legged??? 
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It is definitely pink on my computer, and my screen is usually pretty good with colors. So I’d bet it is actually pink.
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I watched this mantell goch today, it looked as if it was feeding from pears on the ground. Almost all of the pears are on the ground.
The leaves of the pear tree have red spots…
& underneath these are growing …
There is also lots of mistletoe - uchelwydd - about. This is growing on a hawthorn - draenen wen - sorry to mention the C word in September, but it looks like it may be fun this year!
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