What's Buzzing or Flying near you today... 2015

Orange tip butterfly, small blue butterfly( holly blue?) flew by today.

 

Hi Pam
we would need to see a wasp to say which species , plus that is oly going to get bigger as time goes on , so be care full and as well ..... remember what happened to Yvonne last year on the allotment.

 

At the moment it`s about the size of a cotton reel, old type, so I will knock it off tomorrow, it`s over the top of the door, and my mower and other tools live in there, I cannot keep him out as gaps all over the place, hopefully he will move on.

 

they are all female at the moment poor males always get the blame 1st

 

cheeky chaps are back well four so far,had about 5 pairs nesting last year some managed 2 clutches,still got the cat they hate 4 or 5 would form some sort of squadron diving at the cat loudly something to see, only missing the cat by inches,you know where the cat is

seem to go back to there old nest this one's mate made it too

 

Just done the "get out of my garden" dance (sorry for the pic quality)

 

Mr c, I wish I had them nesting here. There are still hundreds of Swallows coming in from the Channel down here and lots of Swifts too.

Loli, I bet it all went quiet when she arrived.!

Tadnoll Nature reserve this morning, two square miles of lowland Heath next to the decommissioned Winfrith Nuclear Power Station. I was hoping to see Hobby and Cuckoo but saw (nor heard) neither.
Female Linnet.


Male yellow Hammer.


Male Grey Wagtail.

 

3 beautiful studies,
thank you @strongylodon ,
Jenny
I haven't heard our local cuckoo since the day I heard it - about 3 weeks back?
Does that mean that they are not "calling " for a mate to pair up with? ie - the jobs done and no longer need to do it again?

 

In the privet hedge between ours and the neighbours' garden is an old rusty post, the last remnant of a fence which disappeared many years ago.

It is used almost every year by tits as a nesting site and they're back again this year. They are quite happy to pop in and out feeding their chicks while we potter about in the garden, so yesterday Mrs Trunky settled down in a chair with her long lens at the ready to see if she could get some good shots. This is the best of the bunch.

 

Jenny I think they will mate with different females, if they can find them, as there are so few coming here annually now and should call through till the middle of June, perhaps your has lost it's voice!!

 

Thanks strongylodon hoping for a few this year,they had a good year last but left a bit late,the cold came in and food dried up

 

thank you Strongy

 

@Spruce is there a good website for identifying bees? I would love to know what is buzzing around, I see quite a few of the large orangey "bumbles" (as on the apple blossom photo, and the fleece), as well as the classic black and yellow striped fellas. I have a fighting start with the butterflies (breaking news - first swallowtails have been spotted in the region) but haven't a clue with the bees.

Thanks in advance (and apologies if you are always seem to be answering this question!)

 

It did,it's fascinating the sudden silence when all the rest of the birds take cover even my chooks hide.The only sound is usually me stood waving my finger and giving her a lecture but she just stares at me as if to say "Ahh shud up"