I really like your sea life photos. Congrats on your book find! Perffaith, and a bargain besides…Enjoy!
You can take a look. Won’t post my profile here though so it won’t look like too self-praising.
And, Your findings of all sorts of animals are amazing so are photos. Da iawn!
I’m sure it’s not!! I think it;s impossible to put one that people with no idea how to pronounce ‘ll’ can make any sense of!!
Croeso nol, John, I hope you had a lovely holiday!!
More bad pics, I’m afraid! The first is a bird I always wanted to see, but do not remember seeing. I didn’t expect it in Scotland, but the bird book does show it as being here!
I don’t think it has centered properly!
It is a jay which I think is ‘screch y coed’. My friend took the picture, as she did the other one. We thought a few leaves had fallen on an old dock basin off the canal, but when they multiplied it was clear it was plants. We think ‘long leaved pondweed’!
Damn! having trouble getting it! I’ll try in a separate post!!
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I’m having trouble!! See you later!!
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Enw hiraf - longest name, (i’m not sure the phonetic translation is particularly good).[/quote]
No, it isn’t a great guide to the pronunciation. But if you want to learn how to pronounce that, I’ve added a track to soundcloud that I learned it from a LONG time ago. You’ll find a link to that here.
Its another of those moments when i have to say i’m not given to jelousy but this is a close call.
In other words when am i going to be lucky and that close to one. diolch yn fawr iawn.
Thanks for the link, i noticed by coincidence that the name came up in another thread.
coincidence is rather wonderful at times.
Cheers J.P.
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A few photos, some new species and some i feel are just better quality. (as usual click on image for full size).
Glesyn cyffredin (benywaidd) - common blue (female).
Pidyn y gog - cuckoos point, now fruiting and looking way different to earlier in the year.
Sioncyn y ddol - meadow grasshopper. (note very short wings - nodiad, adain byr iawn).
Sioncyn gwair cyffredin - field grasshopper. (note, hairy under body).
Criciedyn hirgorn tywyll (gwrywaidd) - dark bush cricket (male). Those antennae sure are long.
Cridiedyn hirgorn tywyll (benywaidd) - dark bush cricket (female) note, long egg laying tube (ovipositor) at rear end.
Now it gets interesting.
Ysgallen y maes - creeping thistle.
The large swelling in stem (first time i have found it) is a gall caused by a fly with various names
Urophora cardui - picture winged fly, Canadian thistle gall fly (but none in welsh as yet). Now i need to find/photograph the fly.
Cheers J.P.
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O’r diewydd! Here is the pond weed!! Janet found an entry on the web which implies it is a native to the Florida waterways. If so, it’s travelled a long way! But I’m sure I found it mentioned somewhere as ‘found in Scotland’!!
I’m glad you liked our surprise visitor! Here is a better version of the picture (I hope)!
p.s. We had an experience yesterday! Janet asked me, “Are those baby goldfinches?” I ran (well hurried) for the bird book and we could see at once that they were not siskins and were baby goldfinches!! Nicos ifanc!!! Of course, neither of us had any sort of camera/phone to hand!! But I felt almost as proud of ‘our’ mam a thad nico as if I’d raised the chicks myself!!
I do hope the breeding of goldfinches in Argyll isn’t evidence of global warming!!!
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I may well be wrong, but from where i have looked ‘Nico’ may be one of those words that does not have a plural (just the same word).
Today was wet at times and somehow despite sitting in likely places i did not really see anything new (in fact i saw surprisingly little). All part of the fun.
So just a photo to help mouths water.
Mwyar duon - Bramble, with ripe black berries (there seem to be plenty this year).
Cheers J.P.
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I actually looked up ‘nico’ in my big dictionary before posting that mailing and it said: “nico (os) goldfinch.”!!! I guess as usual, it depends which dictionary and which end you look in!! Looking up ‘goldfinch’ gave all three possible words but no plurals!!! 
p,s, Lovely mwyar duon!! Rain is good for some things!! Our poor nicos may have had second thoughts about moving north, given our appalling summer!!! I hope they don’t move away again!
Yep, that’s what i found, but as ever it seems welsh is flexible and i’m sure we can cope with that. 
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Your post a bit back about pond weed, made me think about how little i know about pond weed, It’s a bit difficult to see detail in your photo but just for a comparison start here is one species from today.
Dyffrllys llydanddail - Broad leaved pondweed.
Cheers J.P.
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Went to some different places today which produced results (have not managed to identify some insects so will not post them).
Chwydden goronog - Knopper gall, (another gall, this time on acorns).
Gwenynen fel ar y gynffon las - honey bee on budlleia.
Jac y neidiwr - Himalayan balsam.
Orange balsam, for which i have not found a welsh name but i put it in for comparison (two imported species that seem to be flourishing here).
Rhiain y dwr - pond skater.
Cheers J.P.
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I wouldn’t swear on oath that ours isn’t that, but I’d say the one in ‘our’ mooring bay has narrower leaves.
Some closer photo’s will help (when you get the chance).
The wet weather has been keeping critter count low but a surprise can always appear.
Mystery, yep it buzzed into view and soon moved on.
Gellyg - pears. It does look as if fruit will be good this year.
Gwrnerth y dŵr - water figwort (i think). Trying to learn new plants and this ones flowers look rather small and insignificant until i get really close.
Cheers J.P.
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Well now, it’s been a rather good day and i’m afraid many photo’s will have to remain unposted (there are far to many). anyway, here is a selection.
Rhostir - heathland, what a beautiful start to the day, blue sky, fluffy clouds and the horizon is distant. Hard to believe 30 years ago this was a nuclear launch point of great repute (well it got a lot of press).
Again the ‘Gwiber’ adder avoided me, i just saw the tail end dissapearing into long grass as i crept up, should i practice creeping!. No matter, lets see what else is about.
sioncyn y rhos - Heath grasshopper.
Criciedyn hirgorn brith - Speckled bush cricket. This photo does not show full extent of antennae but gives more detail of body colour.
Aeron gwyddfid - honeysuckle berries.
Dock bugs, sorry no welsh name but such a group seemed unusual, looks like one instar from adulthood.
Cleiswyfyn brown - Brown china mark, (the new book of names got it’s first use for this one).
Gwyfyn teires lleiaf - Lesser treble bar.
Madarch y maes - Field mushroom. I saw a lot of fungi starting today and this was the biggest surprise.
Llinos - Linnet. The light was fading and the bird was a bit distant but it was nice to see.
Cheers J.P.
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Armadilo, Armellog, Dulog: Armadillo
I found several words for these critters. Dulog is what the Welsh Patagonians call it.
Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
I found this little guy foraging in my yard the other morning. You rarely see
them as they are nocturnal. This is the only species in the US. They’re
basically little anteaters. They dig a lot. They keep digging a hole under my
bananas. I tried to fill it in but it always reappears the next morning. I
found out there was a large nest of carpenter ants there. I should have tried
to get a video. He was rummaging in the grass and kept hopping to a new spot to
look for insects.
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I see he/she doesn’t have the black that ‘our’ redpoll had!!! I’m not sure I’ll be able to get any more pondweed pics!!
Do the ants eat your bananas? Maybe he was doing you a favour?
No, they eat decaying wood. When a banana stock produces fruit, the stalk starts to die. So, the roots and stock will be in decay while the bananas ripen.