What's buzzing or flying near you 2021?

Thirty bumblebees!
I have quite a way to go.
Armandii, your garden sounds magnificent, will you post some pics of your roses in June?
We live almost next to an old church, where rookeries abound in the tall trees, and they descend on us daily, raiding the nuts and seeds and pulling up aubretia and twigs from silver birches to make their nests.This doesn’t seem to deter the small birds overly though.

 

Well, now there is one less bee in our garden and our half-year-old cat started limping back inside.

Guess it turned from a playful encounter to a valuable experience...

 

@shiney, Kites are mainly carrion eaters, dead prey being preferable as they are not as swift as other raptors in chasing and catching birds. They have been known to take rabbits but rarely, a pheasant wold probably be too large to attack. They are still scarce in Dorset and maybe just one or two pairs have bred here in the North of the county.

 

In the 5th pic what is the bird with the blue tit please,

 

Greenfinch @Jiffy and a nice pair of Siskins.
The pair I have visiting are not regular as they have been in previous years and not as tame.

 

Thank you Strongylodon, tis nice to see the Greenfinch making a come back, the Siskins we have 3 pair's + 1 male floating around

 

You are too modest Armandii your roses are lovely ( and I think you have 18 of them!) the yellow rose with the honeysuckle growing with it is so pretty.

Here in Oxfordshire we are inundated with red kites, circling over the house every day, usually in pairs.They mainly do eat carrion, it’s sparrowhawks that tackle larger prey like rabbits and pigeons.One killed two pigeons in the same attack in my garden a couple of years ago, leaving one pigeon dead but with no marks on it, and taking away the head of the other, leaving the headless corpse behind.Bizarre. In another pigeon attack, the sparrowhawk simply left all the feathers behind.

 

R.Alchemist is indeed a beautiful rose and it obviously is doing well where you planted it.
Visiting friends in Rutland a few years ago we went past Barnsdale, but it wasn’t open.
I still have a Geoff Hamilton gardening book somewhere, he was a wonderful gardener and a very pleasant man by all accounts.
Yes, the red kite is a lovely bird, and it’s eerie call reminds you of lonely moors.

 

Siskin.


Coal Tit.


One of two Tree Creepers out on a walk this morning very rarely see more than one on it's own.

 

Poole Harbour, still some wintering Sanderling around but will be gone soon.

Redshanks.


Turnstones, they also will soon be going North to their breeding grounds.

 

Good pics and impressive knowledge of birds on here!

 

A walk to Wareham Forest this morning and saw some Crossbills up in the Pines as well as an early Cuckoo which flew to fast for a pic.