What's Buzzing or Flying near You Today..?? Mark 2..!!

So I had a good walk around where the ivy's growing at the OH's parents, sure as anything at the highest point The ivy was throwing up flower spikes, don't seem to have opened yet, and I can't get close enough in to take a picture or take a whiff.....maybe that just as well

Couldn't get a great photo, it's just of my phone.

 

Oh I can add a little more now the threads been merged Got these at the weekend. Did some field scabiosa from seed this year and the bees seem to be enjoying them

 

Mrs Trunky takes the credit for this photo.
We still have a few late hollyhocks in flower. Out in the garden this morning, this bee timed its arrival just right to give her a great photo opportunity.

 

Hi Everyone
I have been watching the swallows flying overhead for the last 2 weeks , they are late here this year,back home from Cyprus in just over 2 weeks, where we have had the worst winter for nearly a century,all the dams are overflowing. hope the swallows come with me.

 

A few migrants are trickling through, Sand Martins were first, Swallows, Wheatears and Garganey (Summer visiting Duck) are following now and the occasional Osprey.
The Robins are very active here Shiney.

Pam, my brother said they have had the coldest and wettest Winter in Crete for twenty years, although he's only been there for seven. In three months time he'll be complaining that it's tooooo hot to go outside.

 

Saw a Hoopoe yesterday

 

There really are lots of ladybirds about ...most i've seen in years....i wonder if there's a connection....1976 plague of ladybirds.....1976 hottest/driest summer !

 

A lucky sighting Pam , I haven't seen one here yet, a few Hoopoes turn up here in Spring and Autumn but rarely stay long, usually passage migrants, although they have bred a couple of times.

 

We seem to have lots of black ladybirds with red spots the front door is crawling inside and out.Not quite as bad as last year yet,reports of people having to take net curtains down to shake them out.
These seem to bite aswell as killing our good ladybirds off

 

Sorry Shiney I should have mentioned I am still in Cyprus

 

I thought you were back here too Pam, strangely enough there is Hoopoe reported here near Poole.