But ... here's the incredible coincidence that happened this morning.....
This morning, when I heard about the van used in the attack on Seven Sisters road , they said it had been hired in Wales. I then turned to my Significant Other ( although I like "Significant Otter" a lot better) and said ... " I wonder if that's from Pontyclun Van Hire" .... solely based on the fact that there's been a big Pontyclun Van Hire van parked just up the road from us for a good while... so that was the only Welsh van hire outlet that I knew about.
But when the Significant Otter and I met up again at "amser cinio", she'd just heard on the radio that indeed it was. Cripes. Now that's a cyd-ddigwyddiad mawr that is !
I've had a fine time trying to find the Welsh name for the Oystercatcher ..... I'll narrow it down a bit for you ... it's one of these ... you should be able to ditch quite a few of these possibilities straight off, thus* narrowing down the field ...
Pila gwyrdd Carduelis spinus
Pinc y mynydd Fringilla montifringilla
Pioden Pica pica
Piogen Pica pica
Piogen goch Garrulus glandarius
Piogen y môr Haematopus ostralegus
Piogen-y-coed Garrulus glandarius
Pwffin Fratercula arctica**
Pwffin manaw Puffinus puffinus
Pwffingen fanaw Puffinus puffinus
Pysg eryr Pandion haliaetus
Pysgotwr Alcedo atthis
..and now, a bit of Welsh music .... it's Y Promatics gan "Commeo" plus a right posh bandstand .. someone out there must know where it is ....
** I hope you were all surprised to find that Puffinis puffinus isn't a Puffin ... it's actually the Manx Shearwater.
Only 1 of those birds listed up there has been in my garden this morning ... have a guess which one it was.