Y Gylfinir
Apparently the Curlew or in Welsh Y Gyflinir nesting population in North Wales is down 80 percent on the last 20 years and if it carries on there will be none left here quite soon and what a shame it would be not to be able to hear that distinctive call. Y Gyflinir - R Williams Parry Dy alwad glywir hanner dydd Fel ffliwt hyfrydlais uwch y rhos Fel chwiban bugail a fo gudd Dy alwad glywir hanner nos Nes clywir, pan ddwys a dy swn Cyfarth dy anweledig gwn Dy braidd yw'r moel gymylau maith A'th barod gwn yw'r pedwar gwynt Gorlanna'th ddiadelloedd llaith I'w gwasgar eilwaith ar eu hynt Yn yrr ddioffwys, laes ddifref Hyd lynfnion hafodlasau'r ne If you want to help contact Curlew Cymru telling where you might have seen a nest. Maybe there would not be a welsh word for the curlew today as its quite rare and maybe would have not been given a name perhaps and the poetry would not have been written about it. Apparently its foxes and sl...