What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Well done for idenitfying them Marley. It would make more sense seeing as how you photographed them on a leay rather than near a hole. I think that the milk weed plant is amazing.

 

These are the two I caught on camera today ... I think the first is the Swallowtail minus one tail and haven't had time to look up the white one yet, maybe someone knows?







... and this busy little bee thingy (sorry, it's a bit fuzzy ...

 

I do envy you the swallowtail. The "bee thingy" is a hoverfly of some sort, I think

 

I thought so too, Hornbeam, but am not clued up on these flying citters.

I've now discovered the Swallowtails are "common" ha! They are so HUGE as well! Do you know what this white thing is as there are lots of them with this spot.

With my visitors and just getting back from the UK with a houseful of stuff we don't know what to do with (except give to charity) I've had little time to researdh.

 

Help! I've just had to come in from digging the garden as the biggest and densest swarm of midges ever is covering the whole garden. I thought I had better come in as I would have been breathing them in if I had stayed out.

 

Great MF ,think they are having a bit of "i told you so" conflab.

 

Red Crested Pochard. Similar to our ordinary pochards, but with more red on the head and a tufty "punk" hairstyle. There are very few in Britain so this one on Connaught Water this morning was good to see. Probably an escape.

 

Love the Pheasants and the Red Crested Pochard.

My white butterfly above appears to be from the Pieridae species but I can't figure out which one.

I have these two sites which may be of interest to some of you ...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/borboletasemportugal/pool/
http://www.eurobutterflies.com/index.htm

 

It was such a nice afternoon we went for a walk alongside of the Fleet lagoon(where they practised the bouncing bomb in WW2).
Not very clear but there were a few pairs of Stonchats around, this is the male.

Sunny afternoon.

Portland in the distance.

 

Lovely pictures, Strongy!

I had this fella flapping around me this afternoon as I was pruning ...







I'm still trying to find out what species it is.

 

I could be wrong but it looks like a monarch to me. They are american though so i probably am wrong