OK riddle me this: What bee species is this? It's definitely a bumblebee and a female (you can see the pollen basket on the hind leg) but it has a white tail and a white band where you'd expect the yellow band to be. My only guess is that it's a colour morph of some kind.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
What a beautiful picture punkdoc - I don't think I have ever seen a Godwit, I think they may pass the island on their migration but we don't live on their flight pass. Thank you for sharing such a well captured picture on here.
I know these are just normal garden birds, but they are a joy to watch. This one was following me around the garden the other day. And this younger very wet one today. So that is two sets of blackbird fledglings brought to my garden to grow up, along with the baby sparrow, robins, gold finches and dunnocks. The birds do seem to like to bring young to my garden to grow.😁
P.S. Just spotted the second set of robin youngsters too.😁
Robin youngsters, they are so sweet with their flecked breasts. Lovely pictures and the birds are such great company when you are gardening especially the robins and blackbirds - the pigeons come too, but they are just ...... hoovers!
I've been trying to do a bee audit in the garden since there's a lot about at the moment. It's harder than it looks though. I thought I could take a few photos and ID them back at the computer but the photos never have enough information. The difference between a heath bumblebee and a garden bumblebee is whether it has a long face or not apparently. Try telling that from a photo
Anyway there's at least 7 species out there including:
Lots of red-tailed bumblebee workers
Tree bumblebees
Early bumblebee male
Common carder bees
and loads of red mason bees
I have tried the same mate but I'm hopeless at bee identification
Another one for you BirminghamMarc, what type of bee is this one - there were a few of them on this branch at the pond - we wondered if they were having a drink. Can anyone identify them please?
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Quite unusual to see so many Black Tailed Godwits.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
And this younger very wet one today.
So that is two sets of blackbird fledglings brought to my garden to grow up, along with the baby sparrow, robins, gold finches and dunnocks. The birds do seem to like to bring young to my garden to grow.😁
P.S. Just spotted the second set of robin youngsters too.😁