What's Buzzin' or Flying Near You Today..? MK 3..

yes jens

There are about 19 different species of bumblebee

and 6 species of "cuckoo bumble bees" yes and the name say it all they sneak in and lay there eggs in other bumble bee nests

Spruce

 

Jens

we can play name the bumble bee

I will start : 1 Bombus terrestris

 

Well, I think the first bee in Mr Shiney's parade is Bombus lapidarius,
Jenny

 

Lots of Butterflies on a walk (U3A Nature Group) on the chalk escarpment above Swanage,
Meadow Browns, Gate Keepers, Skippers, Ringlets and lots of Marbled Whites and Dark Green Fritillries but no Blues ()
Very few pics as they were not still long enough.
Marbled White.




'Inverted' Comma! Woud not open up.


Burnet Moths.

 

Shiney, that's a Dragonfly! Great photo.

 

Some hoverflies




Bumblebee


Here was I carefully composing the frame, just when I was pressing the shutter this hairy chap(ess) landed and dragged the flower down to show me its weight.


Silver Y

 

Love the composition and colours of that first photo HsuH. How about putting in the July photo competition?
I think he's ACE,
Jenny

 

OK, I'll post it there so that you could put it on your wall, Jenny.


Just had an hour-long power cut, then seems to have some problems with GC server again, now fingers crossed, let me see if I can finish this posting.

Mummy, I'm here, feed me!!!





This morning when we had our first stroll around the garden, we found this fish lying on the lawn...



We were quite puzzled at first, then we saw one of the guard canes around the pond was knocked off. All our fish are in hiding, so we cannot verify it, but it is very likely it is our dear old tench (it must have been 15+ year old, and wouldn't surprise me if it was over 20). I'm feeling quite sad about the loss but Mr H gave it a good burial near to a rose bush so we hope it'll add nutrients which will reward us in years to come. We suspect a heron was the culprit (we've seen them before hence the guard canes and there aren't many ospreys in residential South Glos) but it's a bit puzzling why it didn't pick it up again if it dropped it?

 

I'm sorry to read of your loss HsuH. A dear old friend who had been with you a long time. We had one in our pond - it flashed a gorgeous olive green if the light caught it right.
herons are a pond keeper's nightmare.
Jenny