This is a real education. I had never heard of a bee fly before in any language. Thank you!
Sue
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Brittle cinder, is my best guess, on a horse chestnut. Apparently “infected trees are prone to sudden collapse”. We have a stump in the garden with the blackened form of this parasitic fungus. Maybe that’s why it’s just a stump.
Colsyn brau - brittle cinder
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May I say snap wrt @ramblingjohn’s picks! The weird and wonderful indeed! Meanwhile, in our garden, a sad lad or lass, seeing all the birds eating at our main ‘all-you-can-eat- buffet’ doesn’t really see that it’s fair that his or her food disappears rapidly as soon as he/she approaches…
if anyone knows how to sex a sparrow hawk, please tell me!
After a bit, no food having landed, sadly… he/she fluttered off…
pictures were thanks to Janet who is better at photograpgy than me. But we have some red polls eating frequently now and neither of us has managed a picture. Global warming seems to be widening our bird varieties!
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Fritillaries in Iffley Meadow, Oxford, 21 April. I hope they are still flourishing for the walk on Saturday.
Sue
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I am no expert @henddraig but according to Iolo the adult ‘llawn dwf’ male has
‘cefn llwydlas, boch ac ystlys oren’ - a dove grey back with orange cheeks and flanks. (I think that’s what he’s saying) The female looks bigger with lighter cheeks, breast and flanks. It’s all in Llyfr Adar - Cymru ac Ewrop p.56
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I think i’d need one of each to compare, an unlikely event!
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Warning - Carnage in the garden!
My son took some pictures of a female sparrow hawk in his garden in Pembrokeshire last year. It isn’t full frontal like yours, but I think you can see the difference in colouration. I did post one of the same bird last year, so sorry for this repetition folks. Hope this helps @henddraig Iolo also says that the female has long legs.
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Is it a blossom tree? Cherry blossom or similar?
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Yes, flowers, leaves and bark all look as if it’s a cherry tree - a wild cherry perhaps if it’s pretty tall - or maybe a plum, also from the Prunus family?
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Ah yes, I think it’s a wild cherry blossom! Diolch!! 
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From a couple of days ago.
Gwyn bach - small white.
Heddiw - Today.
Britheg - snake’s head fritillary.
Cheers J.P.
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There was a gorgeous moon-cloud combo going on a couple of nights back…
Then on Sunday this little chap was getting busy…
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Wow we only get hooded crows!
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Of the corvid family, I get crows, jackdaws and magpies too. Slim chance of a raven, jay or chough though, so I doubt I’ll ever get the full set in the garden! (although there are ravens and choughs in Snowdonia, and I’ve seen a jay while walking the dog)
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I have seen a chough in my tiny back yard , well, on the wall thereof, on Gower! They lived on the grazed grass on the cliffs. Not sure why it crossed four or five fields to my wall!
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Prynhawd da! I’m after some tree identification Please and hoping someone can help me?
We have been living here and ‘caretakers’ of this beautiful garden for a year and a half now and I’m still unsure of some of the trees.
It would be fantastic if anyone could help me with giving them names?
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