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

Wow - a stunning photograph!

 

Corvids and tits abounded in the Ryburn Valley today, along with a woodpecker darting in and out of trees beside a millpond. This evening, poised on a rock in the middle of a fairly ferocious stretch of the River Calder, a heron who stood and surveyed the surroundings for a good half hour, looking ruefully onto the nature reserve which is being destroyed and turned into a building site.

 

My garden is positively buzzing with bees this year. Here are just a few of them I managed to catch with the camera today.
















Also, wasn't buzzing or flying but I found this little gardener's friend in the sink pond.

 

An alternative abode for bees on a swarm yesterday. Not a clever plan though- too close to the communal path and facing due south.... We contacted a local bee keeper who arranged for the removal of the bird box, complete with the occupants within:

Jenny

 

Greater Black Backed Gull .


A sleeping GBBG.


Fulmar Petrel with youngster, which despite begging got nothing!




The other parent.

 

Hay, who's looking at me!

 

Good Chicken

 

Went to Lower Wood Nature Reserve, heard lots of bird singing but didn't actually see many since the woods were quite dense. Along the little stream it was teaming with life.








Spent ages trying to photo Mayflies but I wasn't able to do a decent job. Very interesting to watch them come out of water and fly upwards but trying to locate them through the camera lens and keep track of them while bringing them to focus proved impossible for me.


A scorpion fly


And this cheeky creature was playing hide and seek with me.

 

Ive finally got blue tits with babies on my sycamore tree,i put the box up 2yr ago

 

Great Tits Joolz , not Blue. Lovely to see them when they leave the nest for the first time.

 

Chickens don't nomally come with lead shoot in them, but i'm trying to keep this one free from lead shoot

 

Bee-n out and about, I had all the thymne in the world.

 

and a few more insects from elsewhere in the garden