No idea about this one, but it’s good looking. Mae’n olygus.
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That really narrows down the options for this family of fungi to a few ( Boletus quelettii ) is one possibility.
Try looking up Laccaria bicolor . Drw gen i eto, dim enw yn cymraeg ar hyn o bryd - sorry again, no welsh name at the moment.
yr wythnos hon - this week (sorry i have been a bit busy and neglected this thread).
Cap inc carpiog - shaggy ink cap also known as the lawyers wig.
Gwyfyn cennog - Merveille du jour (when i put it on the tree it climbed up and settled where it felt camouflaged).
Draenog - hedgehog.
Ymhen, on i weld bwydo hwn yn fy ngardd ffrindiau - at last i saw this feeding in my friends garden.
Cheers J.P.
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Aha! Now I’ve been pointed in the right direction I recognise it as a ‘deceiver’. Diolch o galon i ti.
Stunning moth. Where did you find him?
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No, he was done as a kitten! But his outlook on life never changed -born so small and late that my Mam mistook him for a fur ball! Pushed big sisters out of his way to get best sucking spot, grew and grew… survived when his Mam died of cat flu later…Moved house with us 4 times. Looked after little neighbour cat who was dumb - no miaw - and any very small humans, including me when I was young! If my Mam slapped me, he went for her!
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Came to a light trap (Thursday night was a late one).
Yr un cap inc carpiog heddiw - the same ink cap today.
Cheers J.P.
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Yr un cap inc carpiog heddiw - the same ink cap today.
Blimey, that’s a big difference.
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Heddiw - today.
Amanita’r gwybed - fly agaric.
Gwe / gweoedd - cobweb (apparently the same word for weaving in welsh).
Coesyn rhychog gwyn - White helvella (and yes this is how they normally look).
Cheers J.P.
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I know they are highly poisonous, but I love the look of these!! I visualise little fairies sitting on them!! It is a lovely specimen!
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Ble mae’r ail un? It reminds me of Gower.
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THESE are Gower… 
Yes I know how lucky I am.
Yes the first one DOES look like the little X’Air went without me.
Taken by a mate laast summer.
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I’m guessing you made your own luck with a lot of hard work!
By the way - great pics.
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I ate a lot of “ffa pop ar dost” in the runup to various paydays that’s for certain! But I had a lot of help, sooo many friends took me flying in their aircraft when I was learning and kept the motivation high.
And it’s a sheer privilege and delight every single time.
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THESE are Gower.
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Although I was once lucky enough, and for me it was luck, to be taken up in a friend’s shared plane and flown over Gower, we didn’t go over the sea, so the nearest I’ve been to your views was flying back from Dublin to Cardiff Rhoose, preceded, of course, by flying the other way! I couldn’t recognise anything except Worm’s Head and I can’t see that in your pics, but they are gorgeous!
I second the comment from Colin about hard work! I never had the guts to try flying a plane myself! I didn’t learn to drive until I early-retired at 50, and I didn’t learn with gears until I discovered automatics can develop a fault whereby they refuse to start because they think they are in gear when they aren’t!
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Well I never HAVE learned to drive - less to bang into in the air! No gears… No reverse…
I can only dream. Perfect mushroom!
A sizeable fungus covered in mould, making it blue.
These were on the same oak - derwen - again large. The one on top is about 15".
Hen of the woods - I think - again on an oak which had lots of old fungi, all around its base.
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Someone on TV was eating some of that the other day, at least I think it was a cookery program I saw it in, not wild life!! However, before tasting, check! I could be wrong and I do not want anyone here to die by my words!
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Don’t worry! It’s too pretty to pick. I’ll get much more pleasure from looking at it than eating it.