What's buzzing or flying near you 2024 ?

You might be right @LunarSea , I just noticed it bobbing up and down and jumped to a conclusion that fitted at the time

 

Green Shield Bug nymph. Pretty good camouflage eh?

 

Lucky shot. This bee flew in whilst I was photographing African Hemp flowers in Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

 

I was very surprised to see this Nuthatch sat on our window ledge, after watching it for a while it flew to our feeder so seems ok.

 

Close encounter with a Marsh Harrier, it didn't see me until the last second .

 

Looks like a young bird, wonderful!

 

Yes definitely a youngster. You can always tell young of any creature because they have a certain 'look' about them. The nuthatches have been absent again here in the last few weeks, but with the season changing more quickly now, they'll hopefully be back soon.
I forgot to add pix I took a few days ago. It was one of those nice days and I actually remembered to take the camera outside - for a change. Everything was out and about!





His little wings were a bit shredded

...incoming...


'I've landed....'


I love how the bees disappear completely when they go inside the Ipomoea flowers. There were so many all trying their luck, and I just caught this one before it vanished

 

Nice toadstools @fairygirl!

 

The most frequent flyer over the garden is the North East Air Ambulance! However, we do have a barn owl that patrols at dusk. Having a Site of Special Scientific Interest opposite the house, there's quite a bit of wildlife around. There are several other birds of prey that I've seen. Kestrels most often, but I did see a couple of much larger birds circling in thermals the other day. We also get lots of bats in the evening, flying up and down the neighbour's drive. I suspect the warm gravel attracts the insects in the evening and that attracts the bats. Lots of bees and butterflies, but very few wasps this year.

EDIT - I just did an image search on the birds of prey I spotted and Google says they were a Peregrine falcon and Eurasian sparrowhawk.

 

I had a bat flying over my garden this morning.

 

We've got a few and some times they fly in to the house this one came to visit

 

Just dug through some of my images to find the birds of prey mentioned in my previous post.

 

Another visit to Brownsea Island today.
Greenshank and Redshank.




I hoped to see a Curlew Sandpiper this Autumn but not as close as this/


Spoonbill numbers are rising, about 40 now.




Black Tailed Godwits.


Shoveler.

 

Holly Blue female on Helianthus flower

 

Hope the wee chap's ok @Jiffy. We have bats here, but at this time of year, I'm usually asleep on the settee when they're out and about!
Thank you @cactus_girl . They were a little project borne out of the base of a defunct fence post. I had to get rid of the concrete, and it occurred to me that I could make something. The smaller ones were done from scratch. The big one needs a bit more attention, but I've had too many other things to do. Not happy with the grey paint, but I was experimenting with that too. They're in the shade so they get some algae on them anyway. The birds like them - as you can see from the pic, but they also sit on the rowan above them, with the inevitable result